Martin Bochnig wrote:
> 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?
Because Sun is made up of over 30,000 people (for another few weeks at
least), and many of us believe different things than others of us, so
it's hard to say that "Sun believes ..." and that then everyone at Sun
will do whatever is necessary to do that.
I would love to see the DRI/DRM porting crew engage more with upstream,
and have encouraged them to do so, but in the end, it's up to the
individuals doing the work and their own individual work/communication
style. Unfortunately, this failure is now resulting in the upstream
DRI/DRM project moving to having their upstream repo just be the Linux
kernel tree, since that's the only OS for which patches and ports are
maintained upstream, since neither the Solaris nor BSD communities ever
really worked well there.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
