Re: Ubuntu Xorg Guru calls for help. Was Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-12-02 Thread Ikem Krueger
 Nope, Bryce doesn't get to work on upstream in any significant way as
part of his Ubuntu work. I was chatting with Dave about this on IRC the
other day. The most significant submission to upstream X.org that's ever
come out of Ubuntu is a quirk table. (yippee.)

Did you chatted with Bryce?

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Re: Ubuntu Xorg Guru calls for help. Was Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-12-02 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 11:01 +, Ikem Krueger wrote:
  Nope, Bryce doesn't get to work on upstream in any significant way as
  part of his Ubuntu work. I was chatting with Dave about this on IRC the
  other day. The most significant submission to upstream X.org that's ever
  come out of Ubuntu is a quirk table. (yippee.)
 
 Did you chatted with Bryce?

Let's chat with git:

atropine:~/xserver% git log --author=bryce | grep -c ^commit  
0

atropine:~/drivers/intel% git log --author=bryce --pretty=oneline
6b93afc564a5e74b0eaaa46c95f557449951b3b9 add pipe a force quirk for Dell mini
6c56521bdc0443c0656271caaa795feb13bc1d6b pipe-a quirk for thinkpad x30
83377b543defdca7226d7c1a7794e4ff3d8b4c84 Pipe-A quirk for HP 2730p (bug #18852)
6c4e134a1a30785c2e5c6d57b21fde54a2dd3413 PipeA quirk for Quanta/W251U 
(launchpad bug #244242)
afa630b448e5993850433c9f0b129758ec4d37b5 Add TV out quirk for HP Compaq nx6110
231a302013981cc597ba09ee89b367c8ab56e8ba Two more Dell quirks
d91d9e6a2f2ba18b35cb6fd7bc3fe8bc617eb44f More Pipe A force quirks
be746a90a87d7a9807fa4243493e7e4d48f7f1c0 More quirks from ubuntu/dell
37bc23660a8c346f1eaa6c93ed2c7a840828f0b0 Quirks from Ubuntu/Dell

atropine:~/drivers/ati% git log --author=bryce --pretty=oneline
c71b2f050e8996787eae463eddbfdb5864ffa65a radeon: AGPMode quirk needed for SiS
e3659ed06fc5bb8817f1dbd7c2d6bc94c67b30f7 radeon: AGPMode quirk needed for IBM 
Thinkpad T40 with Mobility M7 LW
2391531ed6b7c11ddd5ab91b2369821cc5f8b8a7 radeon: AGPMode quirk needed for HP 
Omnibook 6200
49b57767d0d2c041517b0764c2ed2d2ba5a7092c Quirk for RV280 on 82865G/PE/P DRAM 
Controller/Host-Hub
fe73d9a7dfe8ec5c8f1a8dc08e14b4e138aa9276 Add another AGP quirk
36a7dc6ea1e1929e986ab1159497c71521cb2f10 Additional AGP quirks
937b7ac2a259cf504a19dcf62a58b1db1afb8eb9 Add AGP quirk table
1cf7a5494fa94e8d9f30f9b2905dfbe6d4faa445 radeon: Fix pasto in connector table 
setup for vga powerbooks

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Re: Ubuntu Xorg Guru calls for help. Was Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-30 Thread Kevin Kofler
Linuxguy123 wrote:
 http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Ubuntu-X.org-Guru-Calls-for-
Desktop-Help

They did exactly what some people suggested we do in this thread: stick with 
an old X.org X11 release and try to fix its bugs on their own. You can see 
the result in the article and its links. (Hint: it didn't quite work out…) 
Following upstream like Fedora does clearly looks like the better strategy 
to me.

Kevin Kofler

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Re: Ubuntu Xorg Guru calls for help. Was Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-30 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 10:01 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote:
 http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Ubuntu-X.org-Guru-Calls-for-Desktop-Help

Let's see if I can summarize this article:

- we're getting too many bugs
- more testing will find more bugs
- therefore we should test more so we have fewer bugs

Interesting bit of logic there.

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Re: Ubuntu Xorg Guru calls for help. Was Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-30 Thread Haïkel Guémar
Le 30/11/2009 18:01, Linuxguy123 a écrit :
 http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Ubuntu-X.org-Guru-Calls-for-Desktop-Help
 
 
 

Instead of whining, he should ask his employer to hire more X hackers,
one guy is obviously not *enough*.
This has nothing to do with our issue and Fedora at all.

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Re: Ubuntu Xorg Guru calls for help. Was Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-30 Thread Haïkel Guémar
Le 30/11/2009 20:28, Jeff Spaleta a écrit :
 
 What is your definition of hacker? Is he contributing to X.org
 upstream development or is he just pulling patchsets to be applied to
 distribution specific packages?
 

Likely the second option, I'd expect from the company claiming
leadership on the desktop to be more active on the X.org front
especially when it needs more horsepower.
The poor man is suffering hardships, off course, he is all alone
managing the whole X stack. The sensible answer would be to ask to hire
some help, the better would be X developers, at least someone familiar
enough with X code base to provide some support. Not complaining about
the flood of bugs.


 Just as interesting. he's spent most of his time between UDS and
 that post trying to address nvidia regressions
 
 Fwiw, I pretty much ended up spending 100% of my time between release
 and UDS on SRU bugs (mainly for -nvidia)
 
 Yippie for prioritizing regressions in proprietary code!
 
 -jef
 

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Re: Ubuntu Xorg Guru calls for help. Was Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 10:28 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
 On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Haïkel Guémar karlthe...@gmail.com wrote:
  Instead of whining, he should ask his employer to hire more X hackers,
  one guy is obviously not *enough*.
  This has nothing to do with our issue and Fedora at all.
 
 What is your definition of hacker? Is he contributing to X.org
 upstream development or is he just pulling patchsets to be applied to
 distribution specific packages?
 
 Just as interesting. he's spent most of his time between UDS and
 that post trying to address nvidia regressions
 
 Fwiw, I pretty much ended up spending 100% of my time between release
 and UDS on SRU bugs (mainly for -nvidia)
 
 Yippie for prioritizing regressions in proprietary code!

Nope, Bryce doesn't get to work on upstream in any significant way as
part of his Ubuntu work. I was chatting with Dave about this on IRC the
other day. The most significant submission to upstream X.org that's ever
come out of Ubuntu is a quirk table. (yippee.)

As others have said, this post doesn't really teach Fedora any lessons.
It could more accurately have been titled 'Why Having Exactly One X
Developer Is A Really Bad Idea For A Major Distribution'.

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