On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 10:28 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Haïkel Guémar <karlthered@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Instead of whining, he should ask his employer to hire more X hackers, > > one guy is obviously not *enough*. > > This has nothing to do with our issue and Fedora at all. > > What is your definition of hacker? Is he contributing to X.org > upstream development or is he just pulling patchsets to be applied to > distribution specific packages? > > Just as interesting..... he's spent most of his time between UDS and > that post trying to address nvidia regressions.... > > "Fwiw, I pretty much ended up spending 100% of my time between release > and UDS on SRU bugs (mainly for -nvidia)" > > Yippie for prioritizing regressions in proprietary code! Nope, Bryce doesn't get to work on upstream in any significant way as part of his Ubuntu work. I was chatting with Dave about this on IRC the other day. The most significant submission to upstream X.org that's ever come out of Ubuntu is a quirk table. (yippee.) As others have said, this post doesn't really teach Fedora any lessons. It could more accurately have been titled 'Why Having Exactly One X Developer Is A Really Bad Idea For A Major Distribution'. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
