[forum] XFree86's Future and thoughts and suggestions

[David Dawes]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 11:41:09AM -0500, Shawn wrote:

>They *cant* because nobody is willing to listen to what the community as a 
>whole wants. That's the problem, If you can't open up the CVS tree how do you 
>expect people to want to contribute to XFree86? 

It seems to be a little known fact that most of the current committers
who have made significant contributions to XFree86 did so *before*
they had commit access.

The way I see it, the "community" says: "If you do X, you'll get
more people contributing".  We do X, and then we hear "If you do
Y, you'll ...".  I'm wondering what the next excuse will be if the
open commit access is given?  If little things like this prevent people
from contributing, then they don't have much motivation.

>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?

Speaking for myself.

David