Re: XFree86's Future and thoughts and suggestions
David Dawes <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:23:13AM +1000, James Boyden wrote: >On Tuesday, 01 Apr 2003, David Dawes wrote: > >> > I think most parts of the tree correspond to people who are obvious >> >experts. Many of these people are the recognized maintainers, though >> >some of them don't have CVS access. That, in my opinion, should >> >be remedied. >> >> I think that there are lots of parts of the tree for which there >> are no people that have the three necessary things to be maintainers: >> >> 1. they are very knowledgable in the area >> 2. they can make the time/resources commitment to be effective >> 3. they are committed to the general goals and integrity of XFree86 >> >> Some of these areas are probably stable enough that they don't need >> dedicated maintainers. Others do. You mentioned input devices >> before. That's an area that could use an expert with a lot of >> spare time. If there's someone with experience in the broad input >> handling area, and the necessary spare time who'd like to take this >> on, then they should step forward. >> >> As it stands now, we have maintainers for some areas that have all >> but the second requirement. The result is that there are those >> who are dissatisfied with how quickly submissions for those areas >> are handled. That's why that requirement is essential to really >> deal with the problem of getting stuff reviewed and integrated >> quickly and correctly. >> >> Anyway, I'd like to see a breakdown of the source tree, with >> prospective maintainer's names attached, and preferably buy-in from >> those nominated. I've contacted a range of people recently, and >> in the past. > >How is this progressing? Does it look like it will happen? >Is there any chance of such a breakdown being made public, to enable it >to be used in the manner which I suggested in an earlier post? Although some people are suggesting this approach, I haven't seen any of them come up with such a breakdown, either privately or publicly. Hopefully one of them will come up with something (and publicly) soon, preferably with buy-in from those named. Until it's demonstrated that these willing maintainers exist, it's nothing more than a nice idea. Right now we have partial coverage, with a very small number of people picking up the rest. David -- Speaking for myself.