Xorg 7: The new world order

[Mr E_T]

On Thursday 22 December 2005 08:38, Adam Jackson wrote:
> First, thanks all for your help in getting 6.9 and 7.0 out.  That was a 
> tremendous effort, and I appreciate all the work that you guys put into it.
> 
> The modular tree is open for commits.  The server has a stable branch: 
> server-1_0-branch.  Please only commit bug fixes to this branch, and only 
> after they've been applied to HEAD.  These are the usual stable branch rules, 
> so this shouldn't be too surprising to anyone.  If there's any question about 
> the suitability of a fix for the stable branch, don't do it.
> 
> DO NOT COMMIT TO XC.
> 
> I will repeat this, because it bears repeating.
> 
> DO NOT COMMIT TO XC.
> 
> You all already know that 6.8 is bugfix-only.  The same applies to 6.9 now, 
> with the caveat that 6.9 hasn't been explicitly branched.  No changes are to 
> be applied to xc, at all, until a release manager for that branch steps up.  
> There will be no 6.10, do not commit any new development to 6.9.
Its a shame that when XOrg went modular that they went too far.
6.9 is probably the last XOrg version that I will use.
7.0 it too modularised for me.
Too much of a pain to build.
Too many sources.

I feel that XOrg would have been better served to have used a tree with fewer source balls.

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regs MR E_T
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