Re: Suggestion for XFree86

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 01:34:25PM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
>> depends on XFree86's continued success.  David Dawes has turned to that
>> constituency to assist him in resolving this situation.  Both of these
>
>After kicking Keith out. Bad mistake but whats done is done.
>
>> The ONLY thing XFree86 needs to do to correct this problem is to establish a
>> mechanism where any interested person may join XFree86 and be given an equal
>> vote to elect a slate of candidates for a governing board of directors whose
>
>This isnt about voting, governance and dictatorship IMHO, its about
>change. XFree86 is hard to get involved with usefully, resistant to cool
>ideas and strongly wedded to an occasional not rolling regular release
>model.

Keith already put a lot of cool stuff in, and had a very free hand in
doing so.  That he did this isn't tied to him being a core team member.
Others do cool stuff to.  XFree86 rejects very little of what is submitted.

Cool ideas are great.  Implementations of those cool ideas are even
better.

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