Re: (update) X crashes with Millenium II

[Kurt Garloff <K Garloff ping de>]

On Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 07:53:03PM +0000, Wes Bauske wrote:
> > Thanks!!  I am replying to this message from my 100'th xterm currently
> > open :)  I wonder how long it will take for Red Hat to provide a working

> I'd be inclined to ask the question when is the XFree
> organization going to provide more bug free servers
> rather than RH. I hope whatever fixes are in this
> site's code have been cycled back to the XFree folks
> to pick up for a future release.

Yes,

this happens far too often in the free software development (and even more
often with commercial apps): Somebody finds a problem, reports it and after
some checking, one knows where the problem is. Somebody fixes it in a
certain way. He's not very familiar with the code he fixes so the fix is
probably not 100% clean. That's why he doesn't send it to the authors. He's
satisfied with the proggie working at his place. 
If we're lucky, he upgrades his soft pretty often and after a couple of
upgrades he's  really fed up with having to fix it every time. Maybe he will
create a clean patch and sent it to the Maintainer or maybe he will send his
unclean patches to somebody cleanig it and sending it to the maintainer.

It's too bad, that a lot of good software is worse than it had to be. (And I
know I'm guilty of not having sent patches for some programs too.)

Let's try to find out who fixed the XServer and make sure it is sent to the
XFree86 team!

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Kurt Garloff <K.Garloff@ping.de>  (Dortmund, FRG)
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