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Re: Takuma Murakami added to commit list
- From: Alan Hourihane <alanh at fairlite dot demon dot co dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 00:25:42 +0000
- Subject: Re: Takuma Murakami added to commit list
- References: <40203A9C.3010405@msu.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 07:19:40PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> >On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:23:57PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> >>Takuma Murakami has been contributing patches for a few months now. To
> >>make submitting clean patches easier for Takuma, and since we can now
> >>provide this, I have added Takuma to the list of commiters for the xorg
> >>tree on freedesktop.org.
> >>
> >>Remember, we can now give commit access to anyone that demonstrates an
> >>interest in the success of the project by submitting a few clean
> >>patches. If you have big plans for features, send some small patches to
> >>get started, then we can set you up with commit access for your
> >>continuing changes.
> >
> >Harold,
> >
> >I just want to understand what's happening with the project on SourceForge
> >that we had control over anyway and you could add new committers there
> >anyway ?
> >
> >Alan.
>
> Alan,
>
> Well, the problem with the SourceForge project was that it was not where
> our upstream changes originated from and it was not the upstream final
> destination for our changes. We got changes from non-Cygwin specific
> portions of the code and we made changes to non-Cygwin specific portions
> of the code. Thus, we could not ignore the fact that we had an upstream
> tree that we would always want to stay in sync with.
>
> The new xorg repository on freedesktop.org is our new upstream home.
> That makes it less work for me to keep our work in sync with our
> upstream tree. All we have to do now is merge from the CYGWIN branch
> back to the CURRENT branch. Even better, I can delegate this to other
> people that can *do* it rather than them just asking that it be done and
> then follow it for two months waiting to make sure that it was done
> correctly.
>
> It is really great and has dramatically cut down the amount of time that
> I spend doing administrative tasks for Cygwin/X. It freed up enough
> time that I was able to, gasp, actually start working on new features
> again such as the improved clipboard integration. :)
>
> I hope that clears things up,
Not really. I'm confused over what you mean by upstream.
But nevermind, you've moved to freedesktop.org, so I agree with Alexander
about moving the docs and deleting the XonCygwin project from SF.
Alan.