From b565d72d4c4b6366cd02d544b48ce1491ceb01f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aleksandar Fabijanic Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 20:32:55 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update CONTRIBUTING.md --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index d01b5ca16..d771181e7 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -51,6 +51,6 @@ At this point, it's our turn; if you've done everything well, we may just thank **Q:** Why does compilation or test run fail on MinGW, Cygwin, [your platform of choice here]? -**A:** Because we have limited manpower and resources and can't keep up with every minute detail of every platform. Core team makes sure reasonably recent versions of **Visual Studio**, **clang** and **gcc** build/tests pass on Windows, OSX and Linux; the rest is left to the contributors and other parties with interest in particular platforms. As its name says, POCO is very portable and typically it is a minor code fix or ifdef that is needed to iron a wrinkle out; please consider changing it yourself and send us pull request - that will make everyone happy. If you are inclined to do so, please consider "owning" a platform or build system. It is not much of a commitment - you will be expected to (**a**) keep things tidy (i.e building cleanly with tests passing) in regards to your area and (**b**) respond to user's inquiries thereof. +**A:** Because we have limited manpower/resources available and can't keep up with every minute detail of every platform. Core team makes sure reasonably recent versions of **Visual Studio**, **clang** and **gcc** build/tests pass on Windows, OSX and Linux; the rest is left to the contributors and other parties with interest in particular platforms. As its name says, POCO is very portable and typically it is a minor code fix or ifdef that is needed to iron a wrinkle out; please consider changing it yourself and send us pull request - that will make everyone happy. If you are inclined to do so, please consider "owning" a platform or build system. It is not much of a commitment - you will be expected to (**a**) keep things tidy (i.e building cleanly with tests passing) in regards to your area and (**b**) respond to user's inquiries thereof. ---