Buildability of the Xorg drivers

[Peter Hutterer]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 02:07:08AM +0000, Zack Rusin wrote:
> 
> 
> > 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.

Turns out I had sufficient superpowers on vmmouse to do exactly that. All hail
to the new maintainer.

Cheers,
  Peter