Re: Discussing issues

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Kendall Bennett wrote:
> > > small list of people control what does and does not get into XFree86
> > > means that mine and everyone elses contributions to XFree86 stand a very
> > > large chance of getting lost. As you said above, myself and other
> > > developers have a right to demand to be able to contribute, and IMHO that
> > > is entirely what this discussion is all about.
> >
> >    I would be happy if this is what the discussion was about.
> > Some people are discussing how we can get the problem of contributing
> > code solved, but others, including the person who started this
> > whole thing has been using the fact that there are problems as
> > an argument for scraping not just the commit mechanism, but the
> > entire leadership structure of the project.
>
> I agree whole-heartedly with Mark.
>
> Until now I'd assumed/hoped that Keith had been trying to raise this
> internally, and that he had eventually given up and escalated the problem
> to the next level*. Mark, as a member of the core team, should have been
> privy to those discussions, so if Mark his suggesting that they never
> happened I'm disappointed in Keith, and I understand if the two Davids
> are also disappointed.

You hit the nail on the head, Andrew.

- Marc