setxkbmap: Refactoring for better style and maintainability?

[Van de Bugger]

Ok, I can prepare a patch. But I have a question:

Is there any pending patches which are proposed but not yet applied to
repository? 

My change will affect many lines of code, so I am afraid it will likely
conflict with other patches. So it would be simpler to commit all the
pending changes to git repository, then let me work for a day.

--Van


On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 11:18 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> On 02/10/11 04:55 PM, Van de Bugger wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am looking into setxkbmap source. It looks like it written more than
> > 30 years ago.
> 
> Only half that bad:
>  Copyright (c) 1996 by Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc.
> 
> > Who is the maintainer of setxkbmap? Would you accept such fix?
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/doc/xorg-docs/tree/MAINTAINERS
> currently lists no dedicated maintainer, which means the community
> at large picks up whatever occasional work happens (which as you
> can see from http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/setxkbmap/log/
> is not a huge amount).   Of course, our XKB maintainer, Daniel Stone,
> does have a larger say than most community members.
> 
> As the person who has touched the code most recently, I'd be willing
> to consider patches to make the code more maintainable.
> 
> Our guide for submitting patches to X.Org is at:
> http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
>