Re: [Desktop_architects] Desktop Architects reference site at OSDL

2005-12-23 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday 23 December 2005 13:32, John Cherry wrote: > http://groups.osdl.org/workgroups/dtl/desktop_architects/ looks great! it's valuable to document what we're doing and keep us pointed in a direction... btw, i started the discussion period process for adoption of the community/public/fd.o d

[Desktop_architects] Re: Xgl controversey

2005-12-23 Thread Dave Airlie
> > I'm also worried about proposed changes to things like Mesa will have > to go through the proper channels (Brian) and will take some > discussion (especially new GLX extensions). These sort of > architectural decisions are not something that everyone will go "ah > Novell said it is okay, we'll

[Desktop_architects] Xgl controversey

2005-12-23 Thread Dave Airlie
Hi all, This is basically a me too response to Zacks mail, I'm still going to do some work on the external tree as a) Novell aren't working on EGL b) I'm ignoring Novells contribution until it is contributed. You can't hack on a promise (something I've attempted to do for 3 months - I've asked d

Re: [Desktop_architects] Most wanted Application: Email

2005-12-23 Thread Otto Wyss
Mike Shaver wrote: On 21-Dec-05, at 4:19 PM, Otto Wyss wrote: From the Linux desktop survey the most wanted application is an Emailer. So let’s get this problem solved, a cross-platform Emailer which is good enough to replace Outlook as the default Emailer for the masses. Yeah, let's g

Re: [Desktop_architects] Xgl controversy

2005-12-23 Thread Nat Friedman
On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 14:02 -0700, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > with the merge in February, will development on the next iteration be open or > closed? e.g. is this going to be a code dump or something more useful in the > long term? Total merge, long term useful. One tree to rule them all, etc. Na

Re: [Desktop_architects] Xgl controversy

2005-12-23 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday 23 December 2005 09:33, Nat Friedman wrote: > As for the future, David has been planning to clean up what he's working > on now and get it in a functional/mergeable state. The plan is to get > it working and merged as soon as possible, but he's shooting > specifically for XDevConf, which

[Desktop_architects] Desktop Architects reference site at OSDL

2005-12-23 Thread John Cherry
http://groups.osdl.org/workgroups/dtl/desktop_architects/ Hopefully, this page will be a useful resource to you as you work with other organizations within the Linux desktop community. This site is a reference for... * Organizations represented by the desktop architects * Meeting sum

Re: [Desktop_architects] Xgl controversy

2005-12-23 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday 23 December 2005 09:33, Nat Friedman wrote: > For the first 10 or 12 months of development, there was no material > outside contribution to Xgl. ... > largely functional state as fast as possible, without external drag. so nobody was contributing to it (really implying nobo

Re: [Desktop_architects] Xgl controversy

2005-12-23 Thread Zack Rusin
On Friday 23 December 2005 17:33, Nat Friedman wrote: > We'd like to make a splash with something that is largely functional. > That way, the world will take notice of Xgl in a big way and Novell > can get some credit for having been by far the principle sponsor of > this development for more than

Re: [Desktop_architects] Xgl controversy

2005-12-23 Thread Nat Friedman
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 03:31 -0800, Dan Kegel wrote: > http://lwn.net/Articles/165205/ Hey, We have been sponsoring Xgl development here at Novell. David Reveman has been devoting a large portion of his time to Xgl for the last fifteen months or so. As far as I know, we are the only company (ie