startx(1) low hanging fruit buglet for > 1 year in bugzilla

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi,

> Esteemed X11 developers,
> 
> may I direct your attention to a shell scripting buglet in startx(1), as
> reported in https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91811 which
> sits there for more than a year now? Fix included. This is very low
> hanging fruit for improving the code. If the fix can be improved, please
> let me know. Thanks for your time and effort!

Problem is patches in bugzilla are unlikely to be reviewed, even less when they are inline in the bug description.

Best is to prepare a patch (on top of git master, either with git format-patch or directly with git send-email, not forgetting to add the "signed-off-by:" and referencing the "bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91811") and post it to xorg-devel mailing list so it can be reviewed and picked by the maintainers.

See this page for more details on how to submit patches:

  https://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/SubmittingPatches/

Cheers,
Olivier