Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 16:01:55 +0000 From: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upstreaming Proposal Message-ID: <CACvgo53iLtRYh54q9=7Gu5gkHAqkW34zkNeP5supYTB1w0ttOg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1488445887.8839.5.camel@bsdforen.de> References: <CACvgo523OnQAKe0capm0u7XqSdV%2Bpwhqhjtg4%2BmFowvWARHQ_Q@mail.gmail.com> <1488445887.8839.5.camel@bsdforen.de>
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On 2 March 2017 at 09:11, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> wrote: > On Wed, 2017-02-22 at 12:00 +0000, Emil Velikov wrote: >> My name is Emil Velikov and for a while I've been taking care of >> libdrm and Mesa. >> >> I can see that there is some activity on the above in FreeBSD so I'll >> kindly ask that you send [every and any] changes upstream ;-) >> =E2=80=A6 > > I've been a FreeBSD user since 2005 and I just want to pitch in and > say how much I like your attitude. Getting integration patches upstream > is frequently a huge PITA. Especially when they get rid of stuff like > undefined behaviour, which a lot of people still don't seem to understand > or care about. > Hi Dominic, I think it boils don't to our mindset of "I'll patch is in here now and fix/upstream it later". I think we all can same time by opting for - "A seems broken, I'll send an RFC upstream and at the same time if we need to we can merge that locally". Then again, occasionally, I'm also like that so I think we all can improve. -Emil
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