Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:04:27 +0100 From: Rainer Goellner <rainer@jabbe.de> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What can I do? Message-ID: <46028CEB.8050309@jabbe.de> In-Reply-To: <46026D62.4010009@FreeBSD.org> References: <46022E59.7030407@jabbe.de> <46026D62.4010009@FreeBSD.org>
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Florent Thoumie wrote: > Rainer Goellner wrote: >> area I can help to get that xorg thing into the >> ports tree in the conceivable future? > > Probably not (explanation follows). > That's what I thought. >> What I have now is a working release 6.2 system, > > 7th of march? Do you realise some people including me are using the git > tree since october? :-) Yep, but your's ist full of dust by now ;-) Please don't misunderstand me, I'm not a total newbie, have been lurking from the dark (and using FreeBSD!) for a decade or so. > Which also means I have to merge upstream > (regular ports tree) changes into xorg branch almost everyday so that > people can have current xorg ports *and* freebsd ports at the same time. > I really do appreciate that, although I think there's a problem - several ports had to be corrected a few hours after a change lateley, so when you start a full build from such a snap you'll get some "false errors". What can I tell you? Probably you're aware of that anyway. > As you can see on [3], we're still committing fixes. We usually fix > those ports by ourselves (miwi, lesi and myself) but occasionally > forward them to maintainers when we can't figure out what's wrong or > when it requires non-trivial fix. When we fixed all ports broken in a > single experimental pointyhat build, a new one is scheduled and then we > get new errorlogs, ... > So my impression was correct that most of what's left has to do with the right to commit, build and allot. > You're not the first one to say that you'd like xorg > 7.2 in ports now. > I'm sure about that, and I'll be the last to keep you from working hard to get it done ;-) Rainer
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