Martin Bochnig wrote:
> No, thanks,
I wasn't suggesting you do anything - who said you were the only person here?
Edward had expressed interest in working on libxcb himself, and others have
expressed interest in knowing what's going on there.
> WHY should I (or another external person) ever work on the
> fox-gate again?
For the same reason anyone works on any open source - because it interests
you and you're willing to make it available to others, but without knowing
if anyone will use it until you put it out there.
> At the end everything is ready and nobody moves it upstream.
"Nobody" in this case includes you. If we were to follow the strict
OpenSolaris development process used by other gates, then it would be
up to you to file bug reports for specific changes, request a sponsor
to putback those changes, and prepare any necessary code & ARC reviews
for those changes. That I've done all that work myself to integrate
changes from you & Moinak is an exception, not the intended normal process.
I'm sorry that I'm not putting in 24 hours a day to do all the work I
need to do, and do all this for you as well, and that no one else has
volunteered to do so either.
> A year back, when the fox-gate was set up, it had been without any
> question that SPARC-Xorg would be used for one or more of "Sun's
> distros".
SPARC Xorg is already in Sun's distros and will continue to be.
How much of your work will go in, I really don't know - I've not had
time to look at it to see how much we will want to use, and I can't say
whether or not we'll ship any of the open drivers - maybe we will,
maybe we won't - it's not decided yet.
If it only appears in Natamar, Martux, Belenix, Nexenta or other distros,
is that really so horrible?
> Assuming I could afford it to start working on
> xcb (another month for free),
Please don't work on xcb - go find yourself a paying job. The message
was not intended for you, but for anyone who has an interest in xcb.
It's starting to become hard for me to continue communicating with the
xwin-discuss list, since I'm tired of getting attacked by you in response
to every message. I have to remember that there are over 100 other
subscribers who actually want to know what's going on and appreciate the
truth about the status of work in progress.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
