On Don, 2002-09-19 at 17:49, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Gatos does fix real bugs, and I don't see why people are so down on it. > There seems to be some feeling among the XFree86 people that the Gatos > people are rogue, just because they aren't as strict about checkin > criteria as XFree86 is. > > But I suspect that exactly _because_ they aren't as strict, they sometimes > get more done. Certainly faster. > > ( Yes, the Gatos people do not share some of the same concerns the XFree86 > people do. I know XFree86 people must sometimes be frustrated with the > fast-and-lose "just get it working" approach of some of the Gatos code, > but I bet that the Gatos people are frustrated about the fact that > sometimes the XFree86 people don't seem to care about some things > _working_ at all. > > "Stability" of a code-base that doesn't do what people need it to do is > simply not very relevant sometimes. )
I can only speak for myself, but it's my impression that the GATOS folks don't really want to merge their stuff with XFree86 but are quite happy to have their own project and draw people to it. A phenomenon that you should be quite familiar with from my reading of Kernel Traffic. :) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
