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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