From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 5 03:01:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F278A16A400 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 03:01:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com) Received: from aldan.algebra.com (aldan.algebra.com [216.254.65.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6526D43D45 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 03:01:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com) Received: from aldan.algebra.com (aldan [127.0.0.1]) by aldan.algebra.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4530xcr053908 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 4 May 2006 23:00:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by aldan.algebra.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k4530xTi053907; Thu, 4 May 2006 23:00:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com) From: Mikhail Teterin To: Mark Linimon Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 23:00:58 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200605041507.08581.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> <20060505011947.GA22804@soaustin.net> In-Reply-To: <20060505011947.GA22804@soaustin.net> X-Face: %UW#n0|w>ydeGt/b@1-.UFP=K^~-:0f#O:D7whJ5G_<5143Bb3kOIs9XpX+"V+~$adGP:J|SLieM31VIhqXeLBli" Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X.Org 7.0 port? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 03:01:01 -0000 On Thursday 04 May 2006 21:19, Mark Linimon wrote: = Right now there are effectively two people who do the lion's share of the = work, with one or two other people helping.  Both of the first two stay = quite busy staying up with the software itself.  What would you suggest to = solve this problem? Could any of you be persuaded to stop working on the 7.0, which, as was suggested, brings no functional improvements, and concentrate on figuring out the quirks of Radeon, mga_hal vs. DRI and other problems people report to freebsd-x11? Currently, if Eric responds at all, the response can be summarized as: "Yeah, we know, it sucks. Different releases break different things for different people." No ETA for having it figured out or anything... -mi