On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 07:19:40PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:23:57PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > >>Takuma Murakami has been contributing patches for a few months now. To > >>make submitting clean patches easier for Takuma, and since we can now > >>provide this, I have added Takuma to the list of commiters for the xorg > >>tree on freedesktop.org. > >> > >>Remember, we can now give commit access to anyone that demonstrates an > >>interest in the success of the project by submitting a few clean > >>patches. If you have big plans for features, send some small patches to > >>get started, then we can set you up with commit access for your > >>continuing changes. > > > >Harold, > > > >I just want to understand what's happening with the project on SourceForge > >that we had control over anyway and you could add new committers there > >anyway ? > > > >Alan. > > Alan, > > Well, the problem with the SourceForge project was that it was not where > our upstream changes originated from and it was not the upstream final > destination for our changes. We got changes from non-Cygwin specific > portions of the code and we made changes to non-Cygwin specific portions > of the code. Thus, we could not ignore the fact that we had an upstream > tree that we would always want to stay in sync with. > > The new xorg repository on freedesktop.org is our new upstream home. > That makes it less work for me to keep our work in sync with our > upstream tree. All we have to do now is merge from the CYGWIN branch > back to the CURRENT branch. Even better, I can delegate this to other > people that can *do* it rather than them just asking that it be done and > then follow it for two months waiting to make sure that it was done > correctly. > > It is really great and has dramatically cut down the amount of time that > I spend doing administrative tasks for Cygwin/X. It freed up enough > time that I was able to, gasp, actually start working on new features > again such as the improved clipboard integration. :) > > I hope that clears things up,
Not really. I'm confused over what you mean by upstream. But nevermind, you've moved to freedesktop.org, so I agree with Alexander about moving the docs and deleting the XonCygwin project from SF. Alan.
