[forum] communication

[Andrew C Aitchison]

On 23 Mar 2003, Owen Taylor wrote:
>My experience with XFree86 is:
	...		...		...
> - The SAVESET extension, submitted with a working implementation
>   and docs gained zero interest other than from Keith and
>   Jim.

and in another mail the same day he wrote:
> This of course leads us to the thing that I think many people
> have been trying to avoid saying ... if Keith is in fact the 
> only person qualified to look at changes in this area, then it's
> an enormous problem if his changes now are gate-kept
> by someone else. (*) I'd have to expect that under such conditions
> anything other than bug fixes is going to move glacially.

> (*) I'm a huge fan of peer review, actually. But the first 
>     prerequisite for peer review is peers.

If things are going the way I hope, you will now have been included
in the recent expansion of CVS commit privileges.

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison		Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
A.C.Aitchison@dpmms.cam.ac.uk	http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna