On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:56:37PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: >David Dawes wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:53:40AM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: >> >> >>>Clearly the future of XFree86 is very murky right now, as many developers >>>have left to work on other projects such as freedesktop.org, and now with >>>the core team disbanded it is unclear exactly how companies such as >>>SciTech or vendors such as ATI, Via, SiS etc who do not have direct >>>connections with someone on the XFree86 committer list can get their >>>patches into XFree86. From what I can tell basically nothing has really >>>changed and it is just as difficult as before to get submissions into >>>XFree86 (witness the problems of the Cygwin developers getting their >>>patches accepted). >> >> >> Submissions should be made via bugs.xfree86.org. New work should >> be discussed here in advance. This has been the submission policy >> since bugs.xfree86.org was setup, and it applies to individuals >> and companies alike. Anyone looking to short-circuit this public >> submission mechanism and the public review that goes with it will >> be disappointed. > >Interesting interpretation of how bugs.xfree86.org has been used >historically. Hmm... I recall a slightly different reality: > >http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg03713.html > >==================================================================== >**Dunno where it goes, just that thankfully I don't receive any of it.** >The way I understand bugzilla is that people have to go to the web >interface looking for stuff.
To add a little context, the "where" I was referring to is email to the placeholder "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" address. Bugzilla is a primarily a web-based system, and the email side of it leaves a lot to be desired. That's why few of the people who review and commit stuff submitted there are subscribed to that placeholder email list I was referring to. Try subscribing to it and see how much noise it generates. Maybe you could clarify what point you are trying to make. I don't think that bugzilla is the best method for handling submissions precisely because the email aspect of it is lousy, and because there don't appear to be good mechanisms for separating submissions from user support stuff. But, it is what we have... David -- David Dawes developer/release engineer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
