On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:33:34AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: >On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, David Dawes wrote: > >>>There are allot of interesting comments here by Mike, particularly his >>>interest in forking XFree86 and creating his own work. At least I think >>>interesting....and BTW doesn't the ATI maintainer work for Redhat? >> >>Definitely interesting. >> >>One main point I would like to answer now is the issue of the developer >>page on the web site. New membership was basically closed down temporarily >>while the whole membership/developer situation was being reviewed. >> >>After this message goes out, [EMAIL PROTECTED] will be converted to >>a public mailman list -- so if you want to subscribe, go to >>http://www.xfree86.org/mailman/listinfo/devel/ >> >>In the interests of openness, there won't be any private list to replace >>it, and the whole issue of joining XFree86 as a developer will be moot. > >David, this is wonderful news. I'm very pleased to see this >change happen. I've wondered for a long time why the private >devel list was private, considering almost if not all of the >discussions that have taken place on it in all the time I've been >on it have not really been something that private.
Well right there you missed something. Everything on the private devel was private. There was nothing there that could be repeated, nor still can for that matter. Everything said there was done and spoken in confidence and honour. > >In the past I have also submitted various patches found on >mailing lists, and things people have sent me that fixed >something for them. A great deal of said patches I merely passed >along upstream in hopes that they might be useful to the project >after someone did a good code review. This was somewhat of a >mistake of course, as I had no idea what was expected, and found >out quite some time later that my processes and procedures for >submitting patches was not entirely the best. > That is correct. David -- David Dawes Release Engineer/Architect The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
