On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:42:12PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > Ok guys, time to review some work: > > -3 was my fuck up. I have to apologize with the community for pushing > Branden and uploading myself without testing. That was clearly my fault in > evaluating the situation. > > -4 "the rescue release". thanks Branden and sorry that i ruined your > weekend. It shouldn't have happened. No seriously hard feelings from me. I suggest you use this as a learning experience about how people will put heavy pressure on you to rush their toy patch into a big complex package like xfree86 and then disappear just when it's time to test the change. (Probably headed out to the pub, no? :-P) There are so many little screwups that go unnoticed by our users in smaller packages because the change/build/test cycle is much faster. I know you already know most of this from maintaining Apache, a package which scares the bejeezus out of me, but XFree86 is its own wicked passel new lessons learned and old lessons relearned. Naturally, it doesn't help that I seem to have brain damage when it comes to writing grep commands. I guess part of my mind thinks grep is always reading from a pipe. > I have been thinking also to prioritize always drivers bug fixes > (where possible and when it applies) to give more time to testers to > downloadtrunk, build and test. Is there any objections to take this > direction? That sounds like a good idea, and will start to work according to that policy. > If you have any comments speak now ;) I have several items I'd like to add to the list. They all have patches in the BTS or are small-scale changes I understand how to write. * #251307: xserver-xfree86: [ati/atimisc] XVideo apps crash X server; complaints of unresolved symbol xf86XVCopyYUV12ToPacked on 3D Rage IIC AGP rev 122 Michel Dänzer reports that this is due to failure to export that symbol via SYMFUNC() in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/loader/xf86sym.c. [debconf stuff] + #251568: Cope with the ever-changing format of lspci -n output. Need to handle both "bus:device.function" and "domain:bus:device.function". + Add 1280x1024@60Hz as selectable mode when configuring monitor by resolution and refresh rate. + #251808: wrongly rejects SBUS BusID strings (should accept simple integers, too) * Make an xlibmesa-dri.bug script to gather some info --- video card vendor and model, if nothing else. See #248453 for Michel Dänzer's recommendations. * #201737: fix U.K. Macintosh keyboard support * #251310: xlibs: implement compose:caps * #229785: xutils: [sessreg] thinks all hostnames with '.' in them are the same -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's "magic" is another man's Debian GNU/Linux | engineering. "Supernatural" is a branden@debian.org | null word. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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