I'm all okay with this approach. cheers James
James Mills / prologic E: prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Matt Housh <jae...@morpheus.net> wrote: > Greetings, all, > > Since Tilman has retired and we've been reapportioning ports to some > extent, I have a proposal for the future of the xorg ports repository. I'll > keep it simple, the proposal is something like this: > > My idea is that the 'xorg' repo be adopted by the CRUX core team as far as > maintenance and updates are concerned. Any core team member can make > updates as needed to the repo following 3 simple guidelines: > > 1) The set of release tarballs at the x.org releases directory [1] is > considered the "base approved" sources for the 'xorg' repository, the > current release being X11R7.7 as indicated at the main x.org page [2]. > > 2) Appropriate updates for xorg-related CVE-IDs (or bugtraq announcements, > etc.) are considered approved after testing that the updated version > doesn't have any obvious build problems or bugs. In this case it would > include a relevant CVE-ID link or the like in the commit message. We > already do this most of the time. > > 3) Module updates from the xorg-announce mailing list [3] are considered > approved after the same testing as guideline 2. > > Of course 2 and 3 will overlap at times as some module updates will likely > occur due to CVE (or bugtraq, etc.) announcements. > > While this sounds a bit forced in writing that's really not my intent. My > intent is simply to suggest a way to centralize the 'xorg' repo effort so > that it's not a one-man show anymore. Theoretically this should allow us to > keep on top of the updates pretty quickly when it's needed. The > aforementioned testing obviously isn't a rigorous test of everything, > hopefully upstream is doing that for us. It's just the normal expected > diligence on the part of the port maintainers to make sure they port > they're pushing works. > > Thoughts, comments, objections, etc.? > > Matt > > > [1] > http://www.x.org/releases/**X11R7.7/src/<http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/src/> > [2] http://www.x.org/wiki/ > [3] > http://lists.x.org/mailman/**listinfo/xorg-announce<http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-announce> > ______________________________**_________________ > crux-devel mailing list > crux-devel@lists.crux.nu > http://lists.crux.nu/mailman/**listinfo/crux-devel<http://lists.crux.nu/mailman/listinfo/crux-devel> >
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