Re: Mc-devel Digest, Vol 66, Issue 5

["Yury V. Zaytsev" <yury shurup com>]

On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 22:33 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote:

> Why does participation need some website ?

> Everybody can grab the code and mail me. There are projects outside
> which now work for decades and are integral part of most GNU/Linux
> or xBSD distros.

You are confusing the causes and the consequences here. The projects
that you are referring to can afford this kind of attitude exactly
because they are integral part of most Linux/BSD distros for decades
(not vice versa).

MFVS is not (or at least not that I know of).

> If you need anything concrete, just let me know. But please dont
> complain that such a small project doesnt have a big infrastructure.

Ah well, now you are calling a static man-like HTML page on your website
with a few links to the folder with the release tarballs and a publicly
accessible repo + a mailing list "a big infrastructure"?

Guess what? I'm not asking you to install Trac, or Bugzilla, or
Mediawiki, or whatever. Consider this:

http://bellard.org/tcc/

Is this a lot of work? No. Is this largely enough? Yes. 

If you can't afford to spend a few hours of your time on making this up,
I'm sorry, I'm letting the others to draw the conclusions.

> Once there was a time nobody knew about Linux ...

... but it didn't come on it's own. Have you ever seen kernel.org?
 
-- 
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev