IF sun believes in true (and fair) open source collaboration, why did sun's DRM/DRI porting crew (from China?) never push their Solaris port upstream into DRM/DRI's official git repo? Instead they exclusively merged it into OS/Net (first Intel i915 and friends, then [old] Radeon). Not even a set of diffs against any version of DRM/DRI's git (which is a quickly moving target) has ever been published. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Does this invite external contribution? IMO not really. New wrapping, old thinking. %martin On 1/2/09, Gary Gendel <gary at genashor.com> wrote: > James, > > I guess we don't see eye to eye on this one. As an open-source project, if > you don't think things are getting done, you should roll up your sleeves and > help, not criticize. > > Sure, I would love to see everything on my Thinkpad T60p working on > OpenSolaris, the ATI support would really be nice. However, since the new > ATI code drop just happened in the last couple of days, give people time for > to come up with a strategy to deal with it. > > I would offer my services, but the learning curve is steep for driver > development and free time is a bit constrained to such a project. I can > only lend support for those that have been instrumental at getting us this > far. As such, I don't feel that I have the right to criticize. > > That said, I'd love to take a stab at porting the code as long as there was > a mentor willing to help me get set up and give direction. At minimum I can > do testing on my T60p whenever I'm asked. > > Gary > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > xwin-discuss mailing list > xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org >
