On Sat January 26 2008, Michael Biebl wrote: > pm-utils is becoming more and more important as hal is pushing for it > as preferred power management backend. A lot of distributions are > using hal/pm-utils nowadays but they have to carry around a lot of > distro specific patches. It's almost as every distro has an own "fork" > of pm-utils. > Unfortunately the acceptance of external patches has been very low. > Would it be possible to open up the project for external contributions?
Since last Christmas Richard Hughes applies simple patches to pm-utils, if you ask him and the patches look good. > As a first step, I'd propose to move to a more modern SCM, like git. This was also raised in another discussion. Do you know what the procedure is to get this done within freedesktop.org? > As a second step, to share the workload, more people should get commit > access, like the Mandriva, openSUSE and Debian maintainers, which have > posted a lot of patches during the last months. Stefan Seyfried from SUSE should get commit access soon, this would already help a lot. Regards, Till
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