On 04/16/10 08:10 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Right - there was a lot of discussion, but no one stepped up to do the 15-30 minutes worth of work needed at the time to finish the formal project proposal for it - if that was too much work, it seemed unlikely that the hours of work that would be required to make the sources build with the open font libraries would happen.
I for one would be quite happy to put in the time - I think it would be am interesting project. I suspect that there was some confusion about what that 15-30 minutes of work was or who would do it (I see more messages arriving that seem to confirm this theory).
I didn't think I was setting the bar that high for demonstrating interest - just finishing the proposal and sending it out for a formal vote, then reporting the vote results to project-setup when it was done.
That bar doesn't seem very high :-(.
Under the new constitution, it's even lower, since its mostly just filing a bug report and getting one other person to add their +1 to it, but again, I don't know if the window has closed forever or not, and I'm certainly not going to have time to work on cleansing the sources for release until after I've finished my current big project of converting the X gate to build IPS packages natively.
That's understood. So would it make sense to file an RFE (on defects or bugs?) asking for the XSun sources to be made available) if we can get a few people to add their +1s to it? Then it could sit there until you have time to do your part. If it turns out there's more than one person capable and willing to actually put in the time, do you think the work can be partitioned? Thanks -- Frank _______________________________________________ xwin-discuss mailing list [email protected] List info: http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/xwin-discuss Unsubscribe: http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/options/xwin-discuss
