Re: Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

[Josh Boyer <jwboyer gmail com>]

On Tue, 20 May 2008 19:54:42 -0700
"Christopher Stone" <chris stone gmail com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a badger gmail com> wrote:
> > Christopher Stone wrote:
> >>
> >> 2008/5/20 David Boles <dgboles gmail com>:
> >>>
> >>> I need this too. So get busy and provide this please.  ;-)
> >>
> >> Sure, as soon as I get Ajax's paycheck I'll do his job for him....
> >>
> > That's very seldom how open source works.  If you do a job well you get
> > recognized, hired, and paid.  If you spend your time whining about why other
> > people aren't doing things the way you'd do them usually doesn't get you
> > anything.
> >
> > And of course, that doesn't even begin to deal with the fact that packaging
> > old releases of xorg for Fedora *isn't* what ajax gets paid for.
> 
> Yes, I know.  I was being snide when I said this.  I apologize.
> 
> But isn't packaging part of his responsibilities?  It just seems to me

Yes.  And he has done it with extreme proficiency.  What you
are asking is not in the realm of simple "packaging" duties.

> that an upgrade path for nVidia users could be provided without much
> extra effort.

The nVidia thing comes up every release.  Eventually I'm sure nVidia
will update their driver and then the upgrade path for users
choosing to use that driver will be an option.  Waiting a few more weeks
for that to happen is not the end of the world.

josh