On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 15:50, Leon Brooks wrote: > http://www.advogato.org/person/mharris/diary.html?start=5 > > <quote> > ATI submitted open source patches for the Radeon 9500 hardware about the time > it was released. That was many many months ago. That patch still hasn't been > integrated into XFree86 CVS, and as time goes on, I am thinking it is very > likely not going to get integrated into 4.3.0 either. Just yesterday, ATI > sent me 2 or 3 more patches that build upon the last patch they submitted > which wasn't applied. How long is ATI going to continue submitting patches to > XFree86.org that take 9 months to get into CVS, and then perhaps another 4-6 > months to be available in an OS distribution? Quite frankly, if I were ATI, > and submitting patches as frequently as they do, and the patches just sat > there, I might start thinking twice about bothering in the future. > </quote> > > Maybe call a fork XFree2003 to make the point? (-: > > Cheers; Leon
Well, keithp left the XFree project because he tried to fork it...allegedly...why don't you submit these patches directly to the MDK X maintainer, though? We have X patches that aren't in the official release already, I think, so why can't we include these? -- adamw
