Yesterday I sent this to the list, but not being subsribed it was of course rejected.
regards Peter Breitenlohner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:05:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Breitenlohner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: xorg <[email protected]>, Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Ansification of X.Org code & other cleanup work On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > I'd really like to encourage the people who want to tackle these issues to > get > someone to help them apply their first few patches, then apply for git commit > access so you can commit them directly, because if you wait for the few of us > trawling the submitted patches to get to them, many of your patches will be > uselessly out-of-sync with the code by the time we get to them and you'll be > seeing those errors for months or longer until we do. Hi Allan, I'd like to do that; for the moment I would restrict this to these three areas: (1) trivial changes to avoid gcc warnings (certainly not adding const or other changes to public APIs). (2) trivial changes to the autotools build process, e.g., prevent generated files from being distibuted (in a VPATH build they may be used in preference to the freshly generated ones; for the xorg-server-1.5.2 that has the consequence that the reported Build Date actually is the release date). (3) Ansification of first libICE (the first one to build), and later libSM and libXpm. During the last several month I was actively working on the TeX Live svn, and am therefore quite familiar with svn (update, merge, diff, commit), but my git experience is restricted to clone and pull. Here I would certainly need some assistance (ideally by someone who can translate svn commands into equivalent git commands). Given commit access, I would use that only for the subjects listed above (unless given authority to do more). Regards Peter Breitenlohner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
