[forum] Suggestion for XFree86

[Eric Anholt]

On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 11:59, David Dawes wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 01:34:25PM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> >> depends on XFree86's continued success.  David Dawes has turned to that
> >> constituency to assist him in resolving this situation.  Both of these
> >
> >After kicking Keith out. Bad mistake but whats done is done.
> >
> >> The ONLY thing XFree86 needs to do to correct this problem is to establish a
> >> mechanism where any interested person may join XFree86 and be given an equal
> >> vote to elect a slate of candidates for a governing board of directors whose
> >
> >This isnt about voting, governance and dictatorship IMHO, its about
> >change. XFree86 is hard to get involved with usefully, resistant to cool
> >ideas and strongly wedded to an occasional not rolling regular release
> >model.
> 
> Keith already put a lot of cool stuff in, and had a very free hand in
> doing so.  That he did this isn't tied to him being a core team member.
> Others do cool stuff to.  XFree86 rejects very little of what is submitted.

What exactly is Keith's status as a committer?  I had the impression
from talking to others that he was no longer able to commit to XFree86.

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