[forum] XFree86's Future and thoughts and suggestions

[Alan Cox]

> >If you follow the Kernel development structure, having small forks of the 
> >kernel help because those changes get merged back into the mainline tree. 
> >They do not affect development of mainline.
> 
> How can I go about getting commit access to the mainline Kernel tree?

You send a patch to the relevant maintainer and it goes in. Its about
not losing stuff. I send patches to XFree and the responses I get have
generally been silence. When I poked someone a while ago I got the reply
that we don't have enough CVS committers and maybe I should send XFree86 some
money (not btw 'give us money or we apply your patch' - I definitely don't mean
to imply that)

Its about getting changes happening, dynamics of updates and
so on. Its really important to give feedback, thats one thing I learned
quite early on with Linux makes a huge difference. Give feedback and you
get more than repaid. Ignore people and you lose them forever.

Whether that is done by bitkeeper, cvs acls, Keith forking an experimental
subtree or people doing a Linus/Alan/Andrew/Marcelo job isn't the issue.

I still think Keith forking off a Xperimental tree which can fold stuff back
into the mainstream would be a great way to do non driver stuff.

Alan