[Xpert]Re: Where Should I Be Sending Patches?

2002-05-15 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Owen Taylor wrote: Be patient. We're all busy with other things, and there are plenty of patches still waiting in the queue. Please don't resend anything. Can I suggest, as a long term goal, having a publically viewable bug tracker / patch queue? At least from my

[Xpert]Re: Where Should I Be Sending Patches?

2002-05-15 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: -- From xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/README: 3.4 Xpert If instead you are the lone developer who is improving XFree86 on an ad hoc basis for your particular environment (I want to get my mouse or video card to work), and

[Xpert]RE: Where Should I Be Sending Patches?

2002-05-15 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: There are about a handful of people who see these patches, I'm not sure that any of them are paid to work on XFree86, so you are asking a volounteer developer to spend time understanding someone else's patch (including the issues involved) and

[Xpert]RE: Where Should I Be Sending Patches?

2002-05-15 Thread Mike A. Harris
On 14 May 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: This is all very well, but i sent patches to [EMAIL PROTECTED] nearly 3 weeks ago and i've had nothing back apart from an automatic response! does *ANYONE* read it? There is another list for registered developers to submit patches, and the turn

RE: [Xpert]Re: Where Should I Be Sending Patches?

2002-05-15 Thread Rob Taylor
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 5:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Owen Taylor; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Xpert]Re: Where Should I Be Sending Patches? On Tue, 14 May 2002, Owen Taylor wrote: Be patient. We're all busy with other things, and there are plenty of patches still waiting

Re: [Xpert]Re: Where Should I Be Sending Patches?

2002-05-15 Thread Jim.Gettys
There are four ingredients for a bug tracking system to succeed, as I see it: 1. Interest and cooperation from the developer community itself 2. The machine resources/network to support the system (available; I know we have a machine here we could use, if no other, so it is

[Xpert]Re: Where Should I Be Sending Patches?

2002-05-15 Thread gustavo
Hi all, I am not a XFree developer but I'd like to show a user viewpoint: X is faced as something strange, misterious and not transparent. Ex: Check out the rage 128 driver status (the driver of my complaints): Know limitations: none Pardon me , is there an errata for XF 4.2 ? More ? Some