On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:05:07 +0200 Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> wrote:
> Roman Mamedov <r...@romanrm.ru> (18/04/2011): > > So... with a patch available for 1 month+, why is this still not > > applied and uploaded? The driver is currently useless on MIPS > > without this patch. Why do you make people jump through hoops just > > to use Debian on the Yeeloong (manually recompiling Xorg)? > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianYeeloong/HowTo/Install > > you know about volunteer-based distributions? Debian is one of > them. Meaning nobody (generally) gets paid to work on it, and meaning > stuff gets done when people have time to. If a person stepped up to be a maintainer of a package, a certain amount of responsibility is expected. If they can not do something as simple as applying an already prepared patch in a 1.5 month timeframe, maybe it's time for them to just stop holding things up and put the package up as orphaned. If you have people waiting and relying on you, and simply can't deliver, then just stop wasting everyone's time. Actually I reviewed the patch and notice it actually touches not the -siliconmotion driver, but xserver-xorg-core. Maybe the bug should be reassigned as well? -- With respect, Roman
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