On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 05:19:58PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Hi everyone! > > 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? > > As a first step, I'd propose to move to a more modern SCM, like git.
Why? CVS was never the problem of pm-utils. > 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. This would be the first project for me where i would need to use git and i am not interested in that at all, especially as it does not help anything. -- Stefan Seyfried R&D Team Mobile Devices | "Any ideas, John?" SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg | "Well, surrounding them's out." This footer brought to you by insane German lawmakers: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) _______________________________________________ Pm-utils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils
