Jos� Fonseca: > As said before I would like to be able to follow the XFree86 development > closely - wherever that is... So I would like to see the idea of > spliting the devel to come true not only because I don't foresee my > XFree86 membership application being processed within my lifetime, but > also because I think that open source development should be _open_ too.
Politically I agree with you. Personally I value being in a private club, but I wouldn't claim that the benefits to XFree86 (a bunch of developers with massaged egos is the only one I can think of) outweigh the costs (a bunch of developers with bruised egos). On 3 Nov 2002, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > You are really not loosing much. But we do feel more comfortable with > an internal list. Is it still possible to get onto the internal list, or has membership become fossilised because everything happens on the xpert list ? While we have discussions on devel that could be on xpert, we need a way for people like Jose to get onto the internal list. I'm not really sure about making devel public; how are people supposed to decide between newbie, xpert and devel ? I think the original idea was that the "please help me" stuff would be on newbie (although that name doesn't give the right impression) and xpert would only have discussion of future developments. By not reading newbie I guess I've messed that up, but if we made devel public I'd be afraid of another round of mailing list "inflation" (ie the xpert traffic moving to devel, only the people who read newbie reading xpert, and newbie stuff all moving to xpert :-). -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
