[forum] XFree86's Future and thoughts and suggestions

[Ben Jansens]

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On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:26:06PM -0500, John Dennis wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 11:00, David Dawes wrote:
> > I fail to understand why, if you don't like the way this particular
> > group of people does things, you don't go off and do it differently
> > yourself.  There's nothing stopping you.
>=20
> Isn't this precisely what prompted the entire discussion we find
> ourselves embroiled in? A group of people didn't like the direction and
> wanted to fork. I thought I heard earlier a desire to prevent the fork
> and a willingness to listen to and address the concerns that prompted
> the desire to fork, this seems to me a positive approach that I applaud
> the XFree86 team for. A few days ago it was stated the XFree86 team
> wanted to contemplate the issues for a few days and would issue a
> collective response. I think most folks think this is a very important
> next step and are waiting to see how it plays out and are hoping it has
> a different tenor than expressed above, which I do understand might have
> just been personal frustration and understandable given recent events.

My understanding of the situation was that this was started because people
WANTED to contribute but felt they could not and so desired to fork. I've
been in a similar situation myself and it ended up in a fork which turned
out much less positive than a mutual solution would have.

People who do not want to contribute should not be so miffed when the
feature they so desperately want does not get done in a timely manner for
them. This is, as was previously stated, a volunteer project.

Ben
--=20
I am damn unsatisfied to be killed in this way.

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