Buildability of the Xorg drivers

Zack Rusin zackr at vmware.com
Thu Feb 3 02:07:08 UTC 2022



> On Feb 2, 2022, at 15:27, Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 4:16 PM Alan Coopersmith
> <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
>> xf86-input-vmmouse
>> xf86-video-vmware
>>   - do not allow merge requests
> 
> This has been an issue before, in conjunction with not even knowing
> who the nominal maintainer was. E.g. someone submitted a patch almost
> a year ago https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.x.org%2Farchives%2Fxorg-devel%2F2021-March%2F058688.html&data=04%7C01%7Czackr%40vmware.com%7C28b295c074264147244e08d9e68a7838%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C1%7C637794304668232703%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=Zj%2Fnj4NL4pRtM7Cb0AwzAQlZQFMYBS3kDQhTtAfqUXU%3D&reserved=0
> after asking on IRC how to make a merge request and being told...
> dunno, looks like you can't? Can we just turn on MRs for these
> projects?
> 
> I see Zack recently joined the project on Gitlab and pushed to master,
> so Cc'ing him.

Hey, yes, that’s correct, I’ll be maintaining those drivers going forward. 

I did enable MR’s on xf86-video-vmware. I’m actually not a member of xf86-input-vmmouse so if someone could add me then I’ll enable MR’s in there as well.

z


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