Re: xmms development

Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> Hi Harvard,
> 
> I notice you made a few changes to xmms in cvs last week.

Actually, the changes were made by Espen Skoglund ([email protected]); 
Håvard's last cvs change was on Jan 31 22:27:34 CET 2005.


> Would you
> please consider merging in the patches in the Gentoo patchset[1] so we
> can avoid the time-consuming merge that I have to do to incorporate new
> patches.  All the relevant information about the patches is in the
> ChangeLog and README file, and they've been well tested.  PLEASE get
> these merged in.  

Another set of patches (possibly some are dupes with your set) can be 
found here: http://bugs.xmms.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=patch


> The slow pace of upstream development and apathetic
> attitude you seem to exhibit towards contributors is very damaging to
> the project.  I've offered to help out in the past as have others.
> Please incorporate these patches and allow other to help with the
> project.  If not, please allow me cvs access so that I can get them
> merged in myself and start working through the xmms bugzilla.  If that
> something is not done, I believe the best thing for the project would be
> a separate fork hosted on sourceforge, but I would really like to avoid
> such an action.
> 
> I've mentioned a fork before on this list, and I've hoped it would not 
> become necessary, but I'm beginning to see this as possibly the only
> option you are leaving the community.

Indeed. A lot of people are willing to work on xmms, but without someone 
reviewing and checking in patches, all that work will be lost.


Bastiaan.