Re: an observation from the sidelines

On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 09:29:52PM -0500, Jim Doherty wrote:

>groups that seem disconnected,   X.org,  Xfree86,  and the (GNOME/KDE) 
>desktops building on the software and standards provided by both. 
>X.org seems to be only commercially focused,  the fact that XFree needed 
>to incorporate to participate seems like a bad joke these days.   If 
>X.org wants to be relavent, it needs to stay in closer touch with the 
>volunteer efforts, least X get totally forked and they become 
>irrelavent.   The XFree86 team seems like they can learn from some of 
>the other free software projects,  and the fact that this list was 
>started and that they have started using Bugzilla seems to indicate that 
>they are interested in doing that,  but then Keith may have lit this 
>fire.   I like the discussion going on here,  it's been needed for a 
>long time.   There has been major changes in who is pushing advancements 
>in UNIX/Linux/X technology since the time that XFree86 was started and 
>the organizations involved need to recognize that.   I hope that a fork 
>of XFree86 is NOT necessary,  but change is.   I think that having the 
>committers vote on new committers and show an interest in growing the 
>development effort is certainly a good start.   Not to be critical,  but 
>   the people that are doing active development should control the 
>direction of an open source project,  not people that are not active but 
>were at sometime in the past.

Actually it does work as you say it should.  That it works differently
from this is a persistent and lingering myth that we're trying very
hard to dispell.

If there are any developers who feel that the technical direction
of the Project has been dictated to them people who are no longer
active, then they should feel free to speak up.

David
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David Dawes
Release Engineer/President                      The XFree86 Project
www.XFree86.org/~dawes