On Sun, 2011-09-25 at 10:26 -0700, Jamey Sharp wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 08:18:31AM -0400, Gaetan Nadon wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 19:50 -0700, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: > > > Should we move XCB from its own product into an xorg component for > > > consistency? > > > > Yes, it is important to implement the proper X.Org project architecture. > > > > I'll take this opportunity to advocate that the xcb source repositories > > should be relocated under /xorg if feasible. These are the only > > externally recognizable hints that xcb is part of x.org project. That > > would be helpful to direct comments/bug reports to the correct location. > > I suppose that's fine with me, if somebody wants to do the work. Off the > top of my head: > > - People in the xcb group on fd.o need to be added to the xorg group. > > - After moving the repositories, symlinks from the old locations would > be appreciated so old checkouts still work. > > - I'd rather not merge the XCB wiki into the X.Org wiki, unless > somebody's going to do a lot more maintenance on the X.Org wiki than > I've yet seen and they want to take on XCB too.
Ok > > - I don't think most XCB contributors want to see all the mail on > xorg-devel, so I'm inclined to keep the separate mailing list as well. > Although some of us are on both lists anyway, and perhaps nobody would > mind merging? I suspect this will come later, if at all. > > I'd have a happier outlook on this plan if I thought fully merging the > projects would get more administrative support for both XCB and the rest > of X.Org from fd.o admins. It would be nice to hear from them. It cannot be a local initiative, there could be unforeseen side-effects. Thanks for your insight > > Jamey
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