Re: Discussing issues

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 03:06:10PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 12:58:30PM -0400, David Dawes wrote:
>> What I don't understand is why this extra stuff, that sits above
>> XFree86, needs to get pushed down into XFree86.  I guess there will
>> always be some disagreement about where infrastructure ends and
>> the "extra stuff" begins, but XFree86 has basically followed the
>> traditional "X is mechanism not policy" approach.
>
>Note that when I say "umbrella" I mean a set of mailing lists and
>other kinds of server, and people that talk to each other.  I don't
>mean a release.
>
>Again the example that "GNOME" as most people think of the software is
>only a minority subset of "GNOME" the umbrella.
>
>I'd even advocate shrinking the XFree86 main distribution release.
> 
>> >Let me be crystal clear: this is NOT a favorable outcome while I'm
>> >wearing any of my hats, from Red Hat to freedesktop.org to just plain
>> >old Havoc.
>> 
>> And neither is any outcome that disenfranchises those XFree86
>> developers with the most time and effort invested in XFree86 itself.
>> 
>
>Great, so let's design a third outcome.
>
>Strawman proposal: we create a fairly open infrastructure/process

I guess you really don't get it.  Improved communication/dialogue
somehow got morphed into a whole new infrastructure and bureaucratic
process?  You're joking, right?

David
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David Dawes
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