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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Stabilizing Linux
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.202214.24299@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 20:22:14 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.150646.22412@athena.mit.edu>
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- Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
- Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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- In article <1992Aug13.150646.22412@athena.mit.edu>, komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Mark Komarinski) writes:
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- | Having a committee would at least *try* to keep both sides happy.
- | Or, if we Russ Nelson's idea about a 'paid programmer' to make an official
- | release/etc, this committee could help him (or her...) get what both groups
- | eventually want: a stable, working system.
-
- I would consider a committee a success if they could keep track of
- who's working on what, how it's coming, and post the status weekly.
-
- I have little enough time to do anything with Linux, and limit myself
- to porting apps or writing small apps, because of it. While I've been
- lucky that the 3-4 apps I ported were not duplicates, I would really
- like see a list of "what's being worked on" and "what's been
- requested." It would allow me, and other busy people, to pick something
- we know about, offer a little help to someone who's a bit bogged down,
- etc.
-
- I think this is something that some who can't write code could do, but
- someone has to grab the bull by the horns and do it. And don't look at
- me, I can and do write code, and I'm porting some of my usenet sources
- and new toys to Linux. I may even break down and fix the flaming shared
- memory so I can get some things working, but that's another story.
-
- Here's the info I have to contribute, will someone who is using Linux
- and wants to contribute please pick up the ball?
-
- prog use status
-
- bpe binary file edit done, on tsx-11 and banjo
- zoo archiver done, on tsx-11
- diskgeom list HD geom in DOS done, sent to TAMU
- zip archiver 1.8g done, wait official rls date
- time /bin/time done, uploaded to tsx-11
- bundle multivolume tool wait shared mem fix
- bplus B+tree library wait new shared lib format
- qictoo QIC-02 tape driver abandoned, dup effort
-
- --
- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
-