From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 09:31:03 -0700 Received: from smtpe.casema.net ([195.96.96.172]:35857 "HELO smtpe.casema.net") by oss.sgi.com with SMTP id ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 09:30:38 -0700 Received: (qmail 27007 invoked from network); 29 Jun 2000 16:24:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO penguin.nl) (195.96.116.239) by smtpe.casema.net with SMTP; 29 Jun 2000 16:24:05 -0000 Message-ID: <395B795E.5CE23627@penguin.nl> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:29:18 +0200 From: Richard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.15 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Watkins CC: Jay Carlson , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Status reports? References: <001501bfe1e5$a86c6660$540ed7c0@hq.sd.cerf.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing > Hi, i've still got the linux-mips.org domain, but no time to build a website, if someone builds the site, i'll be happy to put it up. Richard > > > I agree. I have a friend who lurks on this mailing list and he swears the > port is dead. > > Having the only www page the port has have look 2 years old(the SGI one) > looks really bad. People who obtain SGI boxes(like me) and want to do > something linux, have to look really hard before they find anything new. > > This port needs some good docs and a good www page badly. > > IMHO of course. Nice to see I'm not the only one. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com > > [mailto:owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com]On Behalf Of Jay Carlson > > Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 4:46 AM > > To: Eric Watkins; linux-mips@oss.sgi.com > > Subject: Re: Status reports? > > > > > > "Eric Watkins" writes: > > > > [...] > > > > > I know lots of this information gets distributed via IRC but someone > > should > > > let everyone, who's not on IRC all the time, know what's going > > on and what > > > progress is being made. > > > > IMO this is a serious problem for many open source development projects > > today. Much of the interaction occurs in IRC or instant message > > chats, and > > not in email. The people who are participating in the online chats have > > much better coordination, but it ends up excluding a lot of people. It's > > not just people in the wrong timezone who lose out---projects > > also lose the > > potential effort of people who join the mailing list, see nothing > > going on, > > and don't get a chance to help. I've found that even casual readers of a > > mailing list can bring insight from other projects to bear on problems. > > > > Jay > > > >