On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 04:02:34PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: [...] > I can't test a lot of the patches that are submitted (for example, > because I don't have the proper environment configured or don't own a > non-US keyboard -- incidentally, it's extremely rare that someone with > an alternative localization setup includes that information in the bug > report; in fact, it's rare that any information on how to reproduce the > bug is given at all). I've tried applying patches blindly before, and > it often results in things breaking for other people. Many patches I > get are just flat-out wrong. > > XFree86 is team-maintained these days. If you think you can be a team > player, ask to join. If all you can do is bitch about how things aren't > being handled to suit your tastes, my preference is that you'd just go > away. I do not have the time to help actively concerning all aspects of the xfree86 package, which is ways to complicated and big for the free time I have, but I am willing to (try to) help dealing with i18n related bugs, trying to reproduce them and see if the provided patches do fix the issue for me (and that they won't break something else on my setup). Given the fact that I use a french localized setup, I guess it could help you, couldn't it? Would you be ok with marking i18n bugs as so in the BTS in the way used in the dpkg package and explained in the thread beginning at http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2003/debian-dpkg-200309/msg00092.html ? I mean, would you accept that I retitle the relevant bugs to add [INTL] in title, to ease my work? Would you mind to do this tagging yourself for the new bugs you get so that I can get a chance to notice them easily? Once again, I cannot promise to be very helpfull on that area since days are so time limited, but I'm willing to try. > If you want to help, help. Identify patches that offer no > more in the way of explanation than "Is broke. Here fix.", and provide > the missing justification and explanation. I'll try to. > I trust you're aware of the massive rearrangement of the XKB data in > 4.3.0, which is why I haven't been applying much in the way of XKB data > patches. Well, no, you probably weren't. That would require reading > the traffic on the debian-x mailing list, wouldn't it? Would you mind forwarding some of those mails on the -i18n list? It would be enough to do so when they are not related to a bug, and pseudo-tag the bug [INTL] in other cases, IMHO. I am sorry, but I fear I have not enough interess in the core of the -x list to subscribe to yet another ML, but once I'm aware of a i18n related thread on that list, I could read it using the web interface. Thanks for your time, empty (Mt). -- Get a clue, or a dictionary. -- example of mutual love on debian-devel ;)
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