Re: XFree86's Future and thoughts and suggestions

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 10:01:43PM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote:
> Shawn Starr writes:
>  > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003, David Dawes wrote:
>  > 
>  > >It seems to be a little known fact that most of the current committers
>  > >who have made significant contributions to XFree86 did so *before*
>  > >they had commit access.
>  > 
>  > The problem is this, its not just about commit access it's about the will of 
>  > the core members to allow contributions into XFree86 so everyone can test it 
>  > out instead of blowing the patch out of the water. 
>  > 
>  > I feel the whole core membership idea is a blockage to XFree86 development. 
>  > 
>  > User develops patch, gives it to Xpert@ it may get some criticisism and may go 
>  > into the CVS tree or it may die silently.
> 
> Is this how it usually goes? Do you remember an example where it
> happened this way? If you can give me one I can look thru my archives
> of xpert@ or now devel@ and see what went wrong.

I do know of the case of the missing xterm XKB patch. A one Derek Foreman
added XKB support to xterm for its bell events, so that bells could be
associated with the xterm window.

The patch was accepted but has not been heard from since.

Ben
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