On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 05:50:00PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Would this also see what patches have come in and see where they are >> applicable? >> What about areas that come in that are distro specific, does that go to the >> distro maintainer of to XFree86? > >Clearly, a distro maintainer. > >Part of the triage process is identifying things that are not >the project's fault. > >> Is the XFree86 bugzilla now repsonsbile >> for all distro bugs, and there are lots? > >Nope. There are clearly times XFree86 should say: this shouldn't be fixed >in XFree86: the distro should fix their breakage. For example, I think >it would be correct to do this when a distro has a distro specific compiler >bug: making XFree86's code worse forever for a transient problem >is a *very* bad idea. > >In my personal experience, I build XFree86 on both RH and Debian, typically >with no problems on either.
The problem I see here is that XFree86 is not only a Linux-based system and this triage method would give Linux bugs a leg up over OSs. This would skew all work done on XFree86 to Linux at the expense of other, not has heavily supported, platforms. Another problem I forsee is that the bugs would be geared towards new or newer hardware, because most of the people reporting bugs have just gotten their Tablet, Laptop or whatever. David -- David Dawes Release Engineer/Architect The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
