Re: Re: [XFree86] Invitation for public discussion about the future of X

 
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From: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, March 20, 2003 10:10:15 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: dri-devel
Subject: Re: [forum] Re: [XFree86] Invitation for public discussion about
the future of X
 
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:37:34 +0000, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> XFree86 BOD wrote:
> 
> >It has been brought to the attention of the XFree86 Core Team that one
> >of its members, Keith Packard, has been actively (but privately) seeking
> >out support for a fork of XFree86 that would be led by himself. He is
> >also in the process of forming a by-invitation-only group of vested
> >interests to discuss privately concerns he has about XFree86 and the
> >future of X. He has consistently refused to even disclose these concerns
> >within the context of the XFree86 Core Team, which makes his membership
> >of that team unviable. As a consequence, Keith Packard is no longer a
> >member of the XFree86 Core Team.
> 
> What specifically does the XFree86 bod see as being wrong with the idea of

> a 'by-invitation-only group' managing X server development? Isn't that 
> exactly what the core team & xfree86 BOD have been doing all along?

Not exactly. Long ago, that was probably right, but these days you
could probably see the Core Team as a bunch of committers to the CVS,
obviously with their own areas of technical knowledge as well.
And yes, we've met on occasion, but more in the reality of a coding
frenzy to work on what we wanted to work on. More recently to talk about
XFree86 5.0, of which I've sent what I wrote down to this list already.


That's good to hear that Five-Oh is going public.  I think allot of
discussion
needs to be done there.  Some of the technical ideas on this list I think
would 
be good input into the Five-Oh design.

Georgina