On Monday 19 May 2003 04:44 pm, Branden Robinson wrote: > That's not literally true; Daniel Stone's packages have been available > for weeks (months?) and have generally been received well.
Thanks for pointing that out. I've done some experimenting with the 4.3.0-0ds4 release and I'll comment on that in another message. > On the openness front, I believe I have already made a great stride > forward. Last month I set up a Subversion repository to house my > development efforts on several packages, including XFree86, Xft, and > Xrender. http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ Neat. I have no experience with subversion yet but I'll figure it out and play with what's there when I get some free time. > This pretty much dovetails with the previous point. Before developing a > comprehensive strategy in this email message, I'd like to see how much > response I get to my solicitation for co-developers in my Subversion > repository. Personally, my knowledge of the XFree86 codebase and more generally the whole packaging process is currently lacking. However, I am willing to learn as time permits and hope to be more useful in the future. At very least I'll try to actively research bugs I discover with using xfree86 on my own hardware.. and eventually clients machines (I'm trying to start a consulting business of sorts.. :) Chris Gebhardt www.openserve.org
