Fwd: Re: X.Org Foundation - Conference Call Minutes - 1st April 2004

>Resent-Date: 4 Apr 2004 20:46:44 -0000
>Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 22:13:41 +0200
>From: Egbert Eich <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Cc: Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: X.Org Foundation - Conference Call Minutes - 1st April 2004
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>Mark W. Snitily writes:
>  > Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>  > I can't agree with your comments more!  We (i.e. the old X.Org)
>  > spent a lot of time and money having Metro Link (i.e. a lot of
>  > _my_ time and others at Metro Link) work as an X.Org contractor
>  > to provide bug fixes and enhancements simultaneously to both the
>  > then current X11R6.6 SI and the then current XFree86 4.x source
>  > tree.  In a way this really was a merger and hence, the new
>  > X.Org source tree builds/improves upon both the old SI and
>  > XFree86.  I would consider this to be a very important point.
>  >
>
>We should keep the facts straight here. The 6.6 merger was done
>by XFree86 well before 4.3 came out. About anything from the
>sample implementation that was done after 6.6 and hasn't been
>part of XFree86 already has been reverted before the release
>as it introduced unjustifiable backward incompatibilities.
>
>The differences to XFree86 that can be attributred to X.Org
>are mainly IPv6 fixes, and documentation updates, however
>they where created after the SI was closed.
>Therefore, yes we should mention those changes, but we should
>keep the facts straight, and not claim that we are releasing
>a pile of earthshaking new stuff.
>Honesty will hpeofully pay off and we should be able to explain
>to the press why we are not shipping the 'code which will X
>win on the desktop' now.
>
>Egbert.