2010/4/11 Michel Dänzer <[email protected]>: > On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 09:30 -0700, Keith Packard wrote: >> First off, thanks to everyone involved in the 1.8 release; it was a >> pleasure to work with you. I'm hoping everyone else is as happy as I am >> about our new release process, it seemed to me that we saw a lot more >> active review and discussion about proposed patches this time around. >> >> For version 1.9, I'm planning on doing things in much the same way, if >> people have suggestions on how we can improve things, please post them >> so we can get things settled before we get too far into the release. > > I still think restricting write access to xserver master to a single > person has been a mistake, choking existing momentum without generating > new momentum, or making master broken less of the time — rather the > opposite: There were a number of cases where breakage wasn't fixed for > days because nobody else was allowed to push the fixes. >
I agree here - it has been adding extra administrative overhead for everyone at the detriment of quality. If we want to merge even _more_ code into the server (i.e. drivers), things are not going to get better. Stephane _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
