Re: [Dri-devel] Future plans for project (was: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree?)

2001-09-18 Thread Daryll Strauss
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:35:33PM -0700, Frank Worsley wrote: > 1. Who is going to take on the leadership position for the project? Although > this is a community project we do need somebody in charge to act as a sort > of "project lead" and contact person for people outside of the project. > Cur

Re: [Dri-devel] Future plans for project (was: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree?)

2001-09-18 Thread Daryll Strauss
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 01:12:34PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > What are the odds of the project coming under the XFree86 umbrella? AFAIK the > only reason that DRI was outside of XFRee86 was because it began at PI, and > then when it moved to VA Linux they hosted it on Sourceforge (?). > > XFree

[Dri-devel] Future plans

2001-09-18 Thread David Johnson
I think Frank's outline of future plans is a good start but let me toss in my 2 cents. Overall, I would like to see some focus shift from just developing drivers to ensuring the infrastructure remains solid and up to date. We can beg hardware manufacturers all we want to release specs but som

Re: [Dri-devel] Future plans for project (was: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree?)

2001-09-18 Thread Keith Whitwell
Will Newton wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 Sep 2001 7:35 am, you wrote: > > > I think it is too early to put a donation page up on the website. Before we > > can do anything like that a few important details have to be sorted out ... > > What are the odds of the project coming under the XFree86 umbre

Re: [Dri-devel] Future plans for project (was: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree?)

2001-09-18 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 18 Sep 2001 7:35 am, you wrote: > I think it is too early to put a donation page up on the website. Before we > can do anything like that a few important details have to be sorted out ... What are the odds of the project coming under the XFree86 umbrella? AFAIK the only reason that D

Re: [Dri-devel] Future plans for project (was: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree?)

2001-09-18 Thread Ben OShea
* Frank Worsley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] > 4. I think we have to also start a more coordinated effort to get specs from > the hardware developers. This weekend I will sit down and try to come up > with a nice document/letter/webpage aimed at management and titled something > like "Why op

Re: [Dri-devel] Future plans for project (was: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree?)

2001-09-18 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Frank Worsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I get it written up I will post it to the list so everybody can > review it. Once we have made something nice I will either email it > or mail it to the different companies. Hopefully we can archieve > something doing that ... what do you a

[Dri-devel] Future plans for project (was: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree?)

2001-09-17 Thread Frank Worsley
Hi all, I think it is too early to put a donation page up on the website. Before we can do anything like that a few important details have to be sorted out ... 1. Who is going to take on the leadership position for the project? Although this is a community project we do need somebody in charge t