Re: [ros-dev] Networking

[Jérôme Gardou]

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(a)reactos.org 
>  [mailto:[e-mail]] *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(a)gmail.com 
>  <mailto:[e-mail]>>
>
>  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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