hi Chris
I'd certainly be open to suggestions on where/how to better reach
the Linux development community (which mailing lists or newsgroups).
(I once did manage to get copies of the Single UNIX Specification Version
2 onto the LinuxWorld Conference CDs a couple of times:-)
The FreeBSD folks have got round the distribution limitations
by having a package that I understand when installed fetches the archive
from the website.
I'll update the FAQ files to have a separate Q/A on bug reporting
and also make that clearer from the Austin Group main page
and add to The Open Group indexes.
regards
Andrew
On Dec 9, 10:29am in "Re: Linux and Thread", Christopher Yeoh wrote:
> To increase the rate of convergence between LSB and POSIX I think that
> some advertising to linux developers on the part of the Austin group
> would be helpful. In my experience although a lot of linux developers
> are aware of POSIX, quite a few of them do not know that they can get
> access to it on a website. This is where less restrictive distribution
> terms would be helpful - eg. if linux distributions were able to
> include a copy of the specifications, I think a lot more people would
> end up reading it.
>
> The other issue is that very few linux developers know how to get
> changes made to the POSIX spec (or are even aware that the Austin
> group exists). Or they believe that the process will take up too much
> of their time. Publishing some easy to read documentation on how this
> process works to some of the linux development mailing lists would
> encourage more people to get involved in the process rather than
> deciding just to diverge from POSIX.
>
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