Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

[Christopher Stone]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2008 15:54:52 -0700
> "Christopher Stone" <chris.stone at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > If it's that simple, you should be able to do it yourself.  The code is
>> > there.  Have at it.
>> >
>> > (HINT: It's not simple at all)
>>
>>
>> According to this thread it seems pretty simple actually:
>>
>> http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=188645
>
> Sure.  Creating them locally is simple.  Then all you'd have to do is
> get it past review, get the primary Xorg maintainer to agree, and
> support it for the entire release.  Which includes handling all the bug
> reports for it.  Which you might get a lot of and won't be able
> to do a damn thing about because of binary drivers.

I don't give a hoot if the packages are supported or not, I just want
an easy way to get my nVidia card working.  All you people do is gripe
and moan about how much work it would be and all this and that.  Look,
its just a matter of adding rpms to a repo, make an "unsupported" repo
if you have to.  The bottom line is you want to have as many people
testing the OS as possible.

>
> Maintaining free software is like having a kid.  Anyone can make it,
> but it takes someone that actually cares to maintain it well.

And obviously ajax does not care about 50% of Fedora's user base.  It
would seem to me that he is not being a good maintainer, I hope he
raises his kids better than he maintains xorg.

>
>> If redhat wants to pay me $100k a year, I'll happily make xorg compat
>> rpms in about one day.  Thank you very much.
>
> I believe that shows your fundamental lack of understanding about
> Fedora and open source software on many levels.

I believe you have no idea what you are talking about.  If I
maintained a package which I knew was not going to work with 50% of
the users hardware, and I was being paid to maintain this package,
then I certainly would spend some time to allow those 50% a way to use
their hardware with the rest of the OS.  Nothing more to it than that,
it has nothing to do with open source, it has everything to do with
being professional.