>> >> Thanks Adam, >> >> Because of my unfamiliarity with the people involved with xorg, can anybody >> verify the claim Adam made? >> If it was just a misplaced competition effort, I can continue to rely on the >> xorg code. >> Also, if it turns out to be a validated claim Adam made, accept it as is and >> continue. Hopefully Adam has learned his lesson. But also Freedesktop.org >> should have it's act together. Do check the access rights and allow only >> trusted persons root access. Hopefully Adam was NOT one of them they trusted >> explicitly and he has only access due to historical reasons. > > Yes, and not sure about the rest. Freedesktop isn't some sort of paid > organisation here, you have a group of volunteers running some > machines tied together with a lot of bailing twine. It only recently > through the good graces of Collabora that fd.o got some paid > administration time directed at it at all (Tollef). Like we could > migrate all the stuff to machines that X.org control but we'd end up > with the same problems + another set of problems. > > Adam still does a lot of a/c maintenance for X.org and other projects, > these will now be have to be done by part-time admin which means even > longer delays on new a/cs. There is a major fd.o overhaul in the works > and maybe Tollef can provide some insight into it when he has time.
I forgot to cc Tollef of course, and gmail sucks at forward/bouncing. Dave. _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
