Re: Disbandment

2004-01-15 Thread Ruth A. Kramer
David, Thank you! Randy Kramer PS: I agree with Torrey Lyons' suggestion, it would be helpful to have your comments added to the first page of xfree86.org. David Dawes wrote: It is part of a restructuring that has moved XFree86 technical and development discussions into a more open

Re: Disbandment

2004-01-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:49:12AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Ruth A. Kramer wrote: Here's what it says at www.xfree86.org: quote No More Core Team [30 December 2003] The XFree86 core team has voted to disband itself, effective 31 December 2003. The

Re: Disbandment

2004-01-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Thomas Dickey wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Ruth A. Kramer wrote: Here's what it says at www.xfree86.org: The XFree86 core team has voted to disband itself, effective 31 December 2003. The XFree86 Project and its active cutting-edge developers are all still very much alive and residing in our

Re: Disbandment

2004-01-14 Thread Ruth A. Kramer
Sven Luther wrote: That said, i perfectly understand that these issues are quite puzzling for outside people, who mostly know XFree86 only from using it, but nothing of the internal quarrels we had in the past. Sven, Or outsiders who knew (or thought they knew) a little about past internal

Re: Disbandment

2004-01-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Sven Luther wrote: The XFree86 core team has voted to disband itself, effective 31 December 2003. The XFree86 Project and its active cutting-edge developers are all still very much alive and residing in our development forum. Comments about this can be made there;

Re: Disbandment

2004-01-14 Thread David Dawes
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:11:14PM -0500, Ruth A. Kramer wrote: Sven Luther wrote: That said, i perfectly understand that these issues are quite puzzling for outside people, who mostly know XFree86 only from using it, but nothing of the internal quarrels we had in the past. Sven, Or outsiders

Re: Disbandment

2004-01-14 Thread Torrey Lyons
I think David's explanation below is very good. It would help stem the tide of confused emails to add almost exactly this wording to the notice on the front page of XFree86.Org. --Torrey At 1:59 PM -0500 1/14/04, David Dawes wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:11:14PM -0500, Ruth A. Kramer

Disbandment

2004-01-13 Thread William M. Quarles
Why are you disbanded? And does this mean that there will be no XFree86 4.4 final? Thanks, William ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Disbandment

2004-01-13 Thread David Dawes
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 08:35:33PM -0500, William M. Quarles wrote: Why are you disbanded? And does this mean that there will be no XFree86 4.4 final? I'm not sure how you came to those conclusions from what it says at www.xfree86.org. And yes, there will be a 4.4.0 release (and a 4.5.0