On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 11:05:21AM -0400, David Dawes wrote:
> I don't see anything new or unusual about what I said.  A similar thing
> happened with the 4.3 release -- there was no wholesale merge of the
> then DRI trunk into XFree86 at the point of the feature freeze.

> The only difference I can see is that I was more involved in DRI stuff
> at the time and so did a lot of the work to make sure that patches for
> bug fixes originating here made it into XFree86.  That included creating
> a "for XFree86 release" branch in the DRI repository, separating out
> the relevant patches, and even going through the DRI commit logs to
> create useful changelog entries when bringing them into XFree86.  Just
> in case it wasn't clear, I did all of this as a DRI developer, not as
> an XFree86 developer.
> 
> My personal priorities now lie in other areas, so someone else, preferably
> someone who keeps up with DRI development more closely than I do these
> days, will have to do all of this.  That is, if the DRI developers
> collectively want anything that hasn't already been merged to appear in
> the XFree86 4.4 release.  If they don't, then there's no problem, right?

Probably I made a bad interpertation, but from your words it seemed that
there would be no wholesale merge of the DRI trunk into XFree86 *ever*,
neither by you or anyone else. But I now understand it's a personal
shift of priorities rather than a seperation of the DRI<->XFree86
projects. Sorry for jumping on the gun.

Jose Fonseca


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