On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 12:35, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > On Tue, 14 May 2002, Rob Taylor wrote: > > > This is all very well, but i sent patches to [EMAIL PROTECTED] nearly 3 weeks > > ago and i've had nothing back apart from an automatic response! does *ANYONE* > > read it? > > There is another list for registered developers to submit patches, > and the turn around can be as bad as that, although I would usually > expect to see my changes in CVS within 2 weeks.
You're lucky. Now that Red Hat 7.3 ships 4.2, I get private mail about a problem in the r128 and radeon drivers for which I submitted a fix (#5199) on March 9th, without any response yet... > There are about a handful of people who see these patches, > I'm not sure that any of them are paid to work on XFree86, > so you are asking a volounteer developer to spend time > understanding someone else's patch (including the issues involved) > and then do the boring administrative stuff of integrating it. > > I think code cutting is fun, but I wouldn't enjoy integrating patches. There are certainly more interesting things, but I'd be willing to do a share if I get a chance. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
