X11R6.8.2 maintenance release plans and call for comments.

Kristian Høgsberg krh at bitplanet.net
Mon Nov 1 12:50:48 PST 2004


Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 15:09 -0500, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> 
>>Roland Mainz wrote:
>>
>>>Then there is still zero control over what goes in into the stable
>>>branch and what not. Remember that the commit-diffs mailinglist is dead
>>>since a while - which means the only way to review changes after commit
>>>is to fetch them file by file from CVSweb.
>>
>>Right, good point, if the commit-diffs list cannot be restored, there's 
>>no way this could work.  There need to be a way to monitor and review 
>>commits, and viewcvs doesn't cut it.  I'm thinking that the bugzilla 
>>mechanism you proposed is probably the best way to go then.
> 
> A while ago this was brought up for dri stuff.
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=dri-devel&m=108174465912422&w=2 suggests
> a ViewCVS alternative with changeset capability.

Wow, that's pretty nice, you'd even think that CVS was a decent revision 
control system, looking at the changesets there... :)

cheers,
Kristian


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