On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 18:36 +0800, Jong Lin wrote: > Hi Gaetan, > > It would be a problem to divide the big patch into small ones because > of big features such as EXA support. The individual feature of EXA > support is still a big patch. > > As I know, Ian was the maintainer of XGI driver by 5/2008 but he > hasn’t been in charge of it for a long time. > > From the following link, we found a new revision xf86-video-xgi-1.5.1 > of XGI driver which is tagged by > > > > > Dave Airlie <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-video-xgi.git > > > > > > It seems that Dave takes over the act of maintainer after Ian. > > Is it right?
I do not know. Occasionally people unrelated to the driver may do some maintenance. > > Do you have any idea of who is the current maintainer? > I don't. It seems like you work for XGI Technology Inc, and the video driver is for their GPU products. You might be the best person to find out. > BTW, do you know who have the authority to assign maintainer or what > is the process of assigning a maintainer for specific driver? We might > need to contact the right person to get permission to check in the big > patch. Please comment. Thanks a lot. > I am a developer with commit privilege as I do regular maintenance on the GNU build system. X.Org does not assign maintainers as it does not have any employee. Who ever needs a particular driver supplies the maintainer which may be an employee of XGI Technology Inc or a volunteer from the it's users community. > > > > > > >
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