Hi Egbert,
I developed a patch for xauth to fix some nasty problems. I first asked
Alan to apply the patch but he had not enough time to do it. So after
some time he gave me access to Xorg as a commiter (I certainly did not
do this on my own).
So my plan was to look after xauth, which I still want to do. However, I
changed my employer in the mean time so I currently have not much spare
time. But this will change soon, as I am now more incorporated to my new
job.
I now promise to apply the patch and all other pending stuff until the
end of the month. If I fail, then feel free to remove me from the
MAINTAINERs file and revoke my access rights. However, I am confident,
that I can do it, because it really is not much to do.
Feel free to contact me for further questions.
Kind regards,
Tilmann
Am 18.09.2013 19:44, schrieb Egbert Eich:
Hi!
On August 14 I've reposted three patches for xauth to this mailing list.
I did so, because I had discovered that a 'Dr. Tilmann Bubeck' has added
himself as maintainer of the xauth package to the xorg/doc/xorg-docs/MAINTAINERS
file on Jan. 22 2013 - considering the change frequency of this file this
is not that long ago.
The only reply I ever got on any of the 3 posts was by Walter Harms.
So I did a quick check in the xauth package which did not turn up any
contribution by this individual.
After doing further investigations I concluded that this commit apparently
was the only thing that he has ever contributed to any X.Org related package.
Research on Google did not turn up any relevant affiliation to any X.Org
related software.
For this change his name and email address is listed not only for the author
but also for the committer.
This begs the question how did this commit ever get into the xorg-docs
package?
Did he commit this change himself - and if so, how did he get commit
access to the X.Org repos?
Or if he didn't do it himself (and he may not even be aware of this commit),
who else did - using his name and email?
Cheers,
Egbert.
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