2009/2/6 Maarten Maathuis:
If you were really seeing a duplicate of a git commit list, then you
would see a whole different picture. For you patches may just be
noise, but that's not the case for everyone.
So ok then, what is the purpose of posting thousands of patches to xorg list?
Cheers,
2009/2/6 Maarten Maathuis:
It gives people time to check, review and/or complain about patches.
Now that the xorg-devel list was made, it will obviously move there.
I certainly check patches that catch my eye (a small fraction of the
total, i admit).
Does one not submit patches to the
2009/2/6 Dan Nicholson:
Development = patches.
While development includes patches, development list is not a version
control system!
Cheers,
Igor
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2009/2/6 William Tracy:
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Igor Mozolevsky i...@hybrid-lab.co.uk wrote:
Does one not submit patches to the maintainer for the sub-project anymore?..
That creates a single point of failure--you are now relying on that
person and that person only to get your patch
2008/9/23 Jason Spiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
In Linux, Ctrl-Alt-Del reboots unconditionally only in console mode. Only
expert users use console mode. When X is running, on all my Linux machines,
Ctrl-Alt-Del brings up a shutdown-or-reboot? dialog instead. The vast
majority of Linux users run
2008/9/23 Jason Spiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Igor Mozolevsky igor at hybrid-lab.co.uk writes:
just because users
incompetently press the combination, doesn't mean it's a bad one.
I respectfully disagree. Accidental zaps often cause data loss. Data loss is
always unacceptable and Xorg should
