A On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 08:59:34PM -0500, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: >> > >I'd not in a position to accuse anyone, but I'm reminded of the saying: >> > >"The best is the enemy of the good". >> > > >> > >* Read access to the patch@ and fixes@ lists would be helpful, then >> > >we would all have an idea of the backlog. >> > >> > It's been there for the asking for members for a long time. Few asked. >> > >> >> You know I never for the life of me understood that. I would have thougtht >> that every developer would be interested and see if their patch bumped horns >> with another. >> As former postmaster I received, I think, a total of two requests. Weird. > >I can share a different perspective: from my point of view the patch@ and >fixes@ lists were for people who have commit access, so it never occured >to me to apply for it in the first place. > >I might be wrong here, but my impression was that XFree86 had voting and >non-voting members and being the one of the second kind I pretty much >assumed that all I have is access to ftp server, documentation and >internal mailing lists like video@ or devel@. (CVS was created later on).
XFree86 has always used CVS even when I was it's lone committer. The sole privilege of a voting over a non-voting member is the ability to elect the board. David -- David Dawes Release Engineer/Architect The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
