[ros-dev] Networking

Jérôme Gardou jerome.gardou at laposte.net
Wed Oct 27 14:04:22 UTC 2010


As someone who's regularly behind an unfriendly proxy, I have to agree.

Ged Murphy wrote:
>
> Aagghhhhh!!! Why is everything always done over IRC????
>
> The neglection of the reactos mailing lists is one of this _/big/_ 
> things this project does wrong.
>
> - It forces the community into a sort of hidden niche group and 
> alienates people who don’t use IRC
>
> - It gives the impression that reactos activity is low. There are 
> thousands of people who follow this project aren’t on IRC and have no 
> idea of what is going on.
>
> - It arguably deters new people from joining because they can’t really 
> get to grips with the project without becoming a slave to IRC
>
> - It means important discussions are missed, even by the core team, if 
> they aren’t watching the IRC chat 24/7 or miss a PM
>
> I could go on and on with reasons of why you neglect the mailing lists 
> is so harmful, but I fear no one will listen to my cries.
>
> Maybe I should vent my frustration in IRC for the niche community, and 
> we can all have an internal discussion about it???
>
> Ged.
>
> *From:* ros-dev-bounces at reactos.org 
> [mailto:ros-dev-bounces at reactos.org] *On Behalf Of *Aleksey Bragin
> *Sent:* 27 October 2010 13:54
> *To:* ReactOS Development List
> *Subject:* Re: [ros-dev] Networking
>
> Yes, please feel free to join our channel when you have any questions. 
> I will create a branch for your coming work, if you like.
>
> Thanks!
>
> WBR,
>
> Aleksey.
>
> On Oct 27, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Olaf Siejka wrote:
>
>
>
> Hiya
>
> Discussing issues on ros-dev maillist is fine. I asked Aleksiej to 
> pass you the irc channel discussion mostly for helping you out with 
> basic ROS stuff like compilation, VM setup and testing issues.
>
> Regards
>
> 2010/10/27 Oleg Baikalow <obaikalow at gmail.com 
> <mailto:obaikalow at gmail.com>>
>
> Hi,
>
> I see you're busy discussing other stuff and my message went unnoticed 
> :) I made a look to existing network branches, found many of them. 
> LWIP is interesting. Alexey said the best way is to join your irc 
> channel. I will try to occasionally join, but in your project, mailing 
> list must be a primary point of discussion not irc channel.
>
> I think I start from making a simple, but robust tcpip driver (with 
> help of numerously available source code of tcp/ip protocol 
> implementations). Hopefully you could give me branch access, it's 
> gonna be hard to develop it with patches.
>
> // Oleg Baikalow.
>
> P.S. I really like your "kernel coding style", quite rare to see that 
> in opensource projects. Most of foss projects utilize linux-alike 
> stlye, whic is harder to read and not that clean.
>
>
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