On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:00:56AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, G O Economou wrote:
>
>>http://www.advogato.org/person/mharris/
>>
>>There are allot of interesting comments here by Mike,
>>particularly his interest in forking XFree86 and creating his
>>own work.
>
>You seem to have some deep misconceptions.  

I read your article and saw it the same way.  I think that this is typical
of you, you speak out of both sides of your mouth.  You are saying a lot of things
in this thread differently than you did in that diary entry of yours.  

The only things I've 
>mentioned on there are my decision to branch the Radeon driver 
>and to contribute stuff back to the XFree86 project.  

And this would have to be approved by the same said Radeon maintainer.
I am not sure what that woould buy you.

>>At least I think interesting....and BTW doesn't the ATI
>>maintainer work for Redhat?
>
>As far as I know, the ATI driver maintainer is Marc Aurele La 
>France, and while he's done some great work on the ATI drivers, 
>we haven't tried to hire him to my knowledge.
>
>Or you could be refering to Kevin Martin.  He works for Red Hat
>however, in our Professional Services department.  He is not
>involved in Red Hat Linux OS engineering with respect to XFree86.
>
Kevin is the Radeon maintainer, not Marc.  If you knew more about this Project
you would know that.  

>
>I've got other ideas and thoughts too, such as the bugzilla idea, 
>but I'm not the only one who wants these things.

And  who are these other people if this is not coming from within the Project?
Why, as Alan says later, don't they just do it and be done with it.

David
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David Dawes
Release Engineer/Architect                      The XFree86 Project
www.XFree86.org/~dawes
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