On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Moinak Ghosh<moinakg at belenix.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Alan
[...] >> OpenSolaris/Nevada gate given the increasing divergence and amount of manual >> merging required. >> > > ? +1. > > ? Eventually the FOX gate should be subsumed ?and only the main > ? X11 gate remains. If distros need experimental changes then it should > ? be acceptable to maintain patches in their own repos. > > Regards, > Moinak. > -- > ================================ > http://www.belenix.org/ > http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ Hi Moinak, it is already - and always has been - "acceptable". Every distributor can put into the own repo what she/he likes. I think the main idea or "grand vision" behind fox-gate had been to interactively *share* for the common good (of all distros, including Indiana). If such a common platform gets lost, then it may happen that distributor foo never ever hears from / learns about the interesting changes contributed by distributor foo+1 etc. That was at least the theory behind it. And look, for example, at your changes. They are very useful to all others. Or take SPARC, in theory (if they was interest) anyone could now offer SPARC-Xorg with the unsupported driver changes. My two Griwna UAH. On the other hand I do agree that the separation between fox-gate and xwin-consolidation should be teared down. Maybe someone of us should then get xwin-gate write access. I don't know if I would currently qualify for this, as I haven't been very active here during recent months. But in general, I mean. Regards, Martin
