Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-17 Thread David Dawes
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 07:36:57PM -0500, Matt Wilson wrote: >I'm not attempting to bully anyone, nor have I argued that you or any >other member (individual or corporate) of XFree86. However, there are Just to clarify, there are no corporate members of XFree86, only individuals. XFree86 is a g

Re: Another voice

2003-01-14 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, David Dawes wrote: >>I can't speak for others who have been interested in a bugzilla >>for XFree86 before, but I've personally just wanted to see an >>open mind towards it. To have open mindedness about the idea is >>a very big difference from being against the idea, and we n

Re: Another voice

2003-01-14 Thread Mike A. Harris
"; boundary="a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C" >Subject: Re: Another voice > >On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 01:55:51PM -0500, David Dawes scrawled: >> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 12:43:55PM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: >> >> >and that, many of them still are. Some of them

Re: Another voice

2003-01-14 Thread David Dawes
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:39:09PM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: >I can't speak for others who have been interested in a bugzilla >for XFree86 before, but I've personally just wanted to see an >open mind towards it. To have open mindedness about the idea is >a very big difference from being agains

Re: Another voice

2003-01-14 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 07:25:54AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: >On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 01:55:51PM -0500, David Dawes scrawled: >> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 12:43:55PM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: >> >> >and that, many of them still are. Some of them have applied for >> >membership, and some of the

Re: Another voice

2003-01-14 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 01:55:51PM -0500, David Dawes scrawled: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 12:43:55PM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > >and that, many of them still are. Some of them have applied for > >membership, and some of them have gotten membership. > > > >Right now, membership is somewhat

Re: Another voice

2003-01-14 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, David Dawes wrote: >>and that, many of them still are. Some of them have applied for >>membership, and some of them have gotten membership. >> >>Right now, membership is somewhat unneeded for the most part of >>course which IMHO helps things a lot. The opening up of this >

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-14 Thread Egbert Eich
Tony Sweeney writes: > In British English, it's "never buy a pig in a poke", where 'poke' is > an archaic word for 'bag'. There is another slang phrase, to "let the OK. thanks for the information! > cat out of the bag", which is to reveal the truth, for instance that There is exactly the sam

Re: Another voice

2003-01-14 Thread David Dawes
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 12:43:55PM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: >and that, many of them still are. Some of them have applied for >membership, and some of them have gotten membership. > >Right now, membership is somewhat unneeded for the most part of >course which IMHO helps things a lot. The op

Re: Another voice

2003-01-14 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, David Dawes wrote: >>David, this is wonderful news. I'm very pleased to see this >>change happen. I've wondered for a long time why the private >>devel list was private, considering almost if not all of the >>discussions that have taken place on it in all the time I've be

Re: Another voice

2003-01-14 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, David Dawes wrote: >I read your article and saw it the same way. I think that this >is typical of you, you speak out of both sides of your mouth. >You are saying a lot of things in this thread differently than >you did in that diary entry of yours. You're certainly entitle

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-14 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, David Dawes wrote: >>Nope. There are clearly times XFree86 should say: this shouldn't be fixed >>in XFree86: the distro should fix their breakage. For example, I think >>it would be correct to do this when a distro has a distro specific compiler >>bug: making XFree86's code

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-14 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, David Dawes wrote: >Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:03:10 -0500 >From: David Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice > >On Mon, Ja

RE: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-14 Thread Terrance A. Davis
Swinging a dead cat is a good way to protect oneself from a hissy fest. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hannes Reinecke Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 9:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice Tony Sweeney

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-14 Thread Hannes Reinecke
Tony Sweeney wrote: In British English, it's "never buy a pig in a poke", where 'poke' is an archaic word for 'bag'. There is another slang phrase, to "let the cat out of the bag", which is to reveal the truth, for instance that the pig in the poke is actually a cat. Evidently, passing cats off

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-14 Thread Tony Sweeney
In British English, it's "never buy a pig in a poke", where 'poke' is an archaic word for 'bag'. There is another slang phrase, to "let the cat out of the bag", which is to reveal the truth, for instance that the pig in the poke is actually a cat. Evidently, passing cats off unseen as piglets has

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread pcpa
Quoting Alan Hourihane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Sorry, this is not how it goes. We won't be willing > > to adopt anything blindly. There is a German saying > > applying here: > > 'Never buy a cat in the bag!' > > > > 1. First there should be a proposal > > 2. Secondly there should be a test imp

Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread David Dawes
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:33:34AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: >On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, David Dawes wrote: > >>>There are allot of interesting comments here by Mike, particularly his >>>interest in forking XFree86 and creating his own work. At least I think >>>interestingand BTW doesn't the ATI

Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread David Dawes
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:00:56AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: >On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, G O Economou wrote: > >>http://www.advogato.org/person/mharris/ >> >>There are allot of interesting comments here by Mike, >>particularly his interest in forking XFree86 and creating his >>own work. > >You seem to

Re: Bugzilla [Was: Re: Another voice]

2003-01-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
David, I think your comments about bugs in Bugzilla skewing towards Linux and new hardware were right on the money. ...but don't you think such skew is statistically inevitable? There are IMO two desires here, and I argue they do not conflict: - Making sure XFree86 does become unduly influenced

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread David Dawes
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 02:12:27PM +, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: >On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Georgina Economou wrote: > >> Well there's still http://mail-thearchive.com. What ever did happen to marc >> on this one? > >Indeed devel and xfree86 appear to be at > http://www.mail-archive.com/ind

Re: Bugzilla [Was: Re: Another voice]

2003-01-13 Thread David Dawes
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:09:21AM +0100, Egbert Eich wrote: >Matt Wilson writes: > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 07:21:04PM -0500, Georgina Economou wrote: > > > > > > So Matt am I to take it that Redhat is looking to push forward with > > > its Bugzilla and thus get more experience and in the end pai

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread David Dawes
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:10:14AM +0100, Egbert Eich wrote: >Matt Wilson writes: > > > > I'm not attempting to bully anyone, nor have I argued that you or any > > other member (individual or corporate) of XFree86. However, there are > > plenty of volunteers that are offering to set up and mainta

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread David Dawes
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 09:14:41PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: >On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 07:23:37PM -0500, David Dawes wrote: >> Since you mention those $200 Walmart systems, has anyone actually >> seen one? They don't have them in any Walmart I've been to -- only >> the $600+ HP and eMachines system

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread David Dawes
A On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 08:59:34PM -0500, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: >> > >I'd not in a position to accuse anyone, but I'm reminded of the saying: >> > >"The best is the enemy of the good". >> > > >> > >* Read access to the patch@ and fixes@ lists would be helpful, then >> > >we would all have an

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread David Dawes
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 05:50:00PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Would this also see what patches have come in and see where they are >> applicable? >> What about areas that come in that are distro specific, does that go to the >> distro maintainer of to XFree86? > >Clearly, a distro maintaine

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread David Dawes
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 06:14:31PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: >On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 06:06:31PM -0500, Matt Wilson wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 05:48:36PM -0500, David Dawes wrote: >> > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 11:01:01PM +0100, Fernando Herrera wrote: >> > >Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 04:15:15PM -05

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread David Dawes
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 02:25:35PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Specifically, there are people in Gnome chomping at the bit to help with >the xfree86 bug setup and triage problem, with experience at running >the Gnome bugzilla system. > >Only time will tell how well this will work out, but my s

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread David Dawes
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 02:30:05PM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: >Just seeking clarification of wether or not the general public >has access to subscribe to the 2 patch mailing lists now or not >after David declared the private lists to be no longer private. I declared the "devel" list to be no lo

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Georgina Economou] > No Mike, I am talking about who controls the reports and who sees > them. Who owns the data? This is RHAT's baby, Bugzilla, so I take > it that they would be a serious Admin to this and would have the > ability to pull data as they want, without asking XFree86 for it. How d

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread David Dawes
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 07:36:57PM -0500, Matt Wilson wrote: >As for providing resources - we've done this for many projects that >have approached us. For example: > >[msw@sid openoffice]$ host bugzilla.gnome.org >bugzilla.gnome.org has address 209.116.70.84 >[msw@sid openoffice]$ whois [EMAIL PR

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:10:14AM +0100, Egbert Eich wrote: > Matt Wilson writes: > > > > I'm not attempting to bully anyone, nor have I argued that you or any > > other member (individual or corporate) of XFree86. However, there are > > plenty of volunteers that are offering to set up and m

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:10:14AM +0100, Egbert Eich scrawled: > Matt Wilson writes: > > I'm not attempting to bully anyone, nor have I argued that you or any > > other member (individual or corporate) of XFree86. However, there are > > plenty of volunteers that are offering to set up and maintai

Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > So.. any chance of GATOS getting into XFree86? ;o) > This question gets asked very often. The answer is that part of GATOS is > already there. The part that isn't is TV-in and hardware Xv for mach64 > cards. And it was submitted but it takes qui

RE: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Terrance A. Davis
t a viable alternative, and you all should take a bow. end of 2 cents worth. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Georgina Economou Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 1:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice - Origi

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Matthieu Herrb
Mike A. Harris wrote (in a message from Monday 13) > I'd be interested also in hearing feedback and comments from > Debian, Mandrake, SuSE, Gentoo, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, > Caldera, and other Linux and BSD distribution XFree86 > package maintainers, and other developers also. I've talked

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >One could go through an evolutionary process, from developers, to invited > >others, to fully open. > > That's an idea I hadn't thought of, one which could be good too > possibly. It would remove the po

Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
> >> mentioned on there are my decision to branch the Radeon driver > >> and to contribute stuff back to the XFree86 project. How that is > >> seen as a fork of the entire project, I'm unsure. I'll be the > >> first to admit that I'd be completely unable to fork the entire > >> XFree86 project on

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Eric Anholt
[about bug database system] > I'd be interested also in hearing feedback and comments from > Debian, Mandrake, SuSE, Gentoo, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, > Caldera, and other Linux and BSD distribution XFree86 > package maintainers, and other developers also. I've talked > personally with some o

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Georgina Economou wrote: >> Personally, I'd love to see interest from core developers to at >> least poke their toe in the water, and some of them have already >> suggested they'd give it a shot and if it worked out ok, they'd >> use it. >> > >I have not seen this comment. Wh

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Georgina Economou wrote: [Extremely large nontrimmed quote snipped] >> Since I am a member however, I get both of these lists >> automatically and can't be sure if they're public now or not. > >A member? A member of what? The public lists? Not sure to what >memberhsip you a

Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
> > > XFree86 project on my own, and that it would be a very large > > > amount of work without any guaranteed gains in return. > > > > > > > Actually, there is a fork of XFree already - in dri.sf.net and another one > > of ati driver only in gatos.sf.net. > > I agree that the latter can be conside

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Georgina Economou
- Original Message - From: "Terrance A. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 1:06 PM Subject: RE: [Devel] Re: Another voice > All, > > I'm not sure what started all this, seems like we need a new para

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Georgina Economou
- Original Message - From: "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >One could go through an evoluti

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Georgina Economou
- Original Message - From: "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 9:38 AM Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice > On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > > >> As far as commit access

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Georgina Economou wrote: >> >I could see how one distro could use bugzilla very well against >> >another's for slick marketing >> >> More conspiracy theories? ;o) A common theme lately. ;o) >> >> Anyway, if a bug is distro specific, then IMHO it is rather >> obvious, and ev

RE: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Terrance A. Davis
All, I'm not sure what started all this, seems like we need a new paradigm. Maybe its time to *really* open source X. A foundation of some sort? I just hacker, so I'll go with whatever works. ..Just an idea. T ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Richard A. Hecker
Mark Vojkovich wrote: .. > >Where I work, bug tracking is necessarily tied to source control > in rather strict ways. Ways that I don't necessarily like, and > would not want to see XFree86 emulate. But I can envision non- > intrusive bug tracking. > > Mark. Thi

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >This seems to be another angle ;) My point was that the easier it is for >> >patches to go in the more attractive the project looks to new developers. >> >> I couldn't agree with you more. >> > >Personal experience: > >I had a simple patch to fix a

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Georgina Economou
- Original Message - From: "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 12:34 PM Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice > On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Georgina Economou wrote: > > > > >I could see how one dis

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Georgina Economou
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Egbert Eich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 10:45 AM Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice > > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > From: Egbert Eich <[E

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Jim.Gettys
> > >> The Linux kernel for example has a very large source code base, > >> and has countless developers whom have worked on it under the > >> Bazaar model, and the code is quite high quality. People write > >> good patches, and people write bad patches regardless of what > >> model of development

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Egbert Eich
Keith Packard writes: > Around 10 o'clock on Jan 13, Egbert Eich wrote: > > > To make RandR rotation work one needs layer support. I have a > > sample implementaion (it takes two lines per driver) however > > this is too experimental to bee added to 4.3 I'm afraid. > > I have done a more

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Jim.Gettys
> > >> The Linux kernel for example has a very large source code base, > >> and has countless developers whom have worked on it under the > >> Bazaar model, and the code is quite high quality. People write > >> good patches, and people write bad patches regardless of what > >> model of development

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Georgina Economou wrote: >What about areas that come in that are distro specific, does that go to the >distro maintainer of to XFree86? If a bug is reported, and the reporter indicates they are using FooLinux, if it can be shown that it is easily a FooLinux specific problem

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > Is a bug tracking system necessarily imposing? Perhaps it's not >well understood what's really involved with one. Keeping track >of what is broken and when it gets fixed seems like a good idea >to me. What does this impose on developers? Nothing i

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On 12 Jan 2003, Eric Anholt wrote: >> You know I never for the life of me understood that. I would have thougtht >> that every developer would be interested and see if their patch bumped horns >> with another. >> As former postmaster I received, I think, a total of two requests. Weird. >> >> Ge

Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Kamil Toman wrote: >Bugzilla may help a bit (if it was activelly maintained). I >don't expect bugreports regarding x-protocol. Indeed, such type of bug report is extremely rare. >I'm quite sure that most of reports would concern drivers. I can back that up with my own exper

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >One could go through an evolutionary process, from developers, to invited >others, to fully open. That's an idea I hadn't thought of, one which could be good too possibly. It would remove the potential threat of incoming bug reports of the form: =

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On 13 Jan 2003, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >Date: 13 Jan 2003 16:41:24 +0100 >From: Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice > >[E

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: >> Where hardware is concerned, such as the video drivers, I would >> agree. More often than not, having the hardware documentation is >> required, or is at least quite helpful. However, the entire >> XFree86 sources contain libraries, extensions, a

Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: >> >http://www.advogato.org/person/mharris/ >> > >> >There are allot of interesting comments here by Mike, >> >particularly his interest in forking XFree86 and creating his >> >own work. >> >> You seem to have some deep misconceptions. The only thing

Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Kamil Toman
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 04:27:03PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Actually, there is a fork of XFree already - in dri.sf.net and another one > > of ati driver only in gatos.sf.net. > > I agree that the latter can be considered a fork, but the former > definitely isn't - the DRI and XFree86 reposi

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Keith Packard
Around 10 o'clock on Jan 13, Egbert Eich wrote: > To make RandR rotation work one needs layer support. I have a > sample implementaion (it takes two lines per driver) however > this is too experimental to bee added to 4.3 I'm afraid. I have done a more complete investigation in September and dec

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Jim.Gettys
> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Egbert Eich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:10:14 +0100 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice > - > Matt Wilson writes: > > > > I'm not attempting to bully anyone,

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Egbert Eich] > Up to now it is not even clear who should be able to > submit to this bug tracking system: > Should it be internal only? > Should only projects like GNOME, KDE etc and distributions like > RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake be able to submit bugs? > Or should it be open to the general public?

Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 16:10, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > > On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, G O Economou wrote: > > > > >http://www.advogato.org/person/mharris/ > > > > > >There are allot of interesting comments here by Mike, > > >particularly his interest in for

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > >> I'm very happy to hear this! I hope we can get more of a developer > >> community going, like I've been feeling in #xfree86 recently. However, > >> I still think the specs are valuable (I've used a

Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, G O Economou wrote: > > >http://www.advogato.org/person/mharris/ > > > >There are allot of interesting comments here by Mike, > >particularly his interest in forking XFree86 and creating his > >own work. > > You seem to have some de

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: >> As far as commit access goes, frankly, if those asking for it could >> establish a record of submitting complete and correct patches that didn't >> need review (and Mike, your record on this isn't anything to boast >> about), then you might have a

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Fernando Herrera wrote: >>So it's OK for Linux kernel developers to object to having a bug tracking >>system imposed on them but not OK for XFree86 developers? If that's >>what you're telling me, then I have nothing more to say on this topic. In that context alone, I would a

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: >> I'm very happy to hear this! I hope we can get more of a developer >> community going, like I've been feeling in #xfree86 recently. However, >> I still think the specs are valuable (I've used a couple of them, and >> expect to again) even if the

Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, David Dawes wrote: >>There are allot of interesting comments here by Mike, particularly his >>interest in forking XFree86 and creating his own work. At least I think >>interestingand BTW doesn't the ATI maintainer work for Redhat? > >Definitely interesting. > >One main po

Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, G O Economou wrote: >http://www.advogato.org/person/mharris/ > >There are allot of interesting comments here by Mike, >particularly his interest in forking XFree86 and creating his >own work. You seem to have some deep misconceptions. The only things I've mentioned on there

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Georgina Economou wrote: > Well there's still http://mail-thearchive.com. What ever did happen to marc > on this one? Indeed devel and xfree86 appear to be at http://www.mail-archive.com/index.php?hunt=xfree86 The xfree86 list has appeared on http://marc.the

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Georgina Economou wrote: > From: "David Dawes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:24:54AM +, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > > >* Read access to the patch@ and fixes@ lists would be helpful, then > > >we would all have an idea of the backlog. > > It's been there

Re: Bugzilla [Was: Re: Another voice]

2003-01-13 Thread Matt Wilson
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:09:21AM +0100, Egbert Eich wrote: > Asking OpenSource projects for money to get consulted? > I don't think you'd get any business from XFree86 either :-))) Of course not - which is why I was so confused by the comment in the first place. Cheers, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Egbert Eich
David Dawes writes: > > It's as simple as me not liking the tools I use during my spare > time being imposed on me by groups that have more to gain from my > using them than I do. This big clamour is not coming from the end > user community, but from groups like gnome, and distros like Red

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Egbert Eich
Matt Wilson writes: > > I'm not attempting to bully anyone, nor have I argued that you or any > other member (individual or corporate) of XFree86. However, there are > plenty of volunteers that are offering to set up and maintain a bug > tracking system for you. I think that such a project

Re: Bugzilla [Was: Re: Another voice]

2003-01-13 Thread Egbert Eich
Matt Wilson writes: > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 07:21:04PM -0500, Georgina Economou wrote: > > > > So Matt am I to take it that Redhat is looking to push forward with > > its Bugzilla and thus get more experience and in the end paid work > > with it like VA did with Sourceforge? That sounds ver

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Egbert Eich
David Dawes writes: > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 11:01:01PM +0100, Fernando Herrera wrote: > >Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 04:15:15PM -0500, David Dawes escribió: > > > >>So it's OK for Linux kernel developers to object to having a bug tracking > >>system imposed on them but not OK for XFree86 developers

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Egbert Eich
David Dawes writes: > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 02:25:35PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Specifically, there are people in Gnome chomping at the bit to help with > >the xfree86 bug setup and triage problem, with experience at running > >the Gnome bugzilla system. > > >Only time will tell

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-12 Thread Eric Anholt
> You know I never for the life of me understood that. I would have thougtht > that every developer would be interested and see if their patch bumped horns > with another. > As former postmaster I received, I think, a total of two requests. Weird. > > Georgina Who's the new postmaster? I sent

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-12 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 03:11, Georgina Economou wrote: > > > On Son, 2003-01-12 at 17:54, David Dawes wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:24:54AM +, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > > > > > > > >* Read access to the patch@ and fixes@ lists would be helpful, then > > > >we would all have an idea

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-12 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Sun, 13 Jan 2003, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > On Son, 2003-01-12 at 17:54, David Dawes wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:24:54AM +, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > > > > > >* Read access to the patch@ and fixes@ lists would be helpful, then > > >we would all have an idea of the back

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 07:23:37PM -0500, David Dawes wrote: > Since you mention those $200 Walmart systems, has anyone actually > seen one? They don't have them in any Walmart I've been to -- only > the $600+ HP and eMachines systems. (adding to last message) They are only available online. Th

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 07:23:37PM -0500, David Dawes wrote: > Since you mention those $200 Walmart systems, has anyone actually > seen one? They don't have them in any Walmart I've been to -- only > the $600+ HP and eMachines systems. Yah, I just got mine. It is a 300-dollar one, basically the

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-12 Thread Georgina Economou
- Original Message - From: "Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 8:30 PM Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice > On Son, 2003-01-12 at 17:54, David Dawes wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:24:54AM