On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 02:40:57PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net> [2004-06-18 09:02]: > > * Should we regard X.Org or FreeDesktop.Org as our upstream source? > > Yes, I'd go with one of them. Keith Packard is also in the NM queue > and interested in helping out. This is well-known to readers of the debian-x mailing list, but thanks for advertising it to a broader audience. > > * Should we go our own way starting from the "sanitized" XFree86 CVS > > snapshot we've prepared? > > I think this would be a really bad idea. I think it would be much > better to try to get all of our patches integrated upstream, and I > hear that the new upstream people (X.Org/FreeDesktop.Org) are much > more interested in integrating porting patches than XFree86 was. > Since Keith Packard is also on our lists, I hope that he'll help with > forwarding patches upstream and getting them integrated. The only problem I have with the new upstream is that there is no obvious screaming drill sergeant of a license auditor. I'd sleep better at night if there were. However, I think that's being worked on. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | If ignorance is bliss, branden@debian.org | is omniscience hell? http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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