Re: Forks and other sundry items

On 1/6/06, Brandon Black <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/6/06, Michael Latiolais <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Instead of talking about forking the codebase, might I suggest an
> > alternative route: actually doing it. Simply talking about this gets yo=
u
> > nowhere, and just irritates the developers(wherever they might be now..=
.).
> > Instead, grab a copy of the arch repository, the 0.2.1 tarball, whateve=
r,
> > and actually do some coding. Bring something to the table besides good
> > intentions. If you don't have the skills or energy to hack out somethin=
g
> > significant, what makes you think that you have the drive to maintain a
> > fork? Look at the
> > roadmap(http://www.y-windows.org/docs_roadmap.html), decide
> > on what you want to do, and just do it.
>
> Agreed - but the point is there are already hackers out there that are
> making some significant patches in the past few months.  Just nobody
> co-ordinating their efforts or merging them back into a central tree
> for people to play with.
>

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