Modular X.org and the Unichrome forks.

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 08:34:17PM +0000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 10:46:47AM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> > What you said last time was: 
> > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7004149&forum_id=38615
> > 
> > About the very last bit, you, and Ivor Hewitt and Andreas Robinson, 
> > should've thought about that before:
> > [...]
> > 
> > I'm sure that this sort of mudthrowing can continue for quite a long 
> > time. And i'm very sure that i can rebutt most of it in more lengthy and 
> > in the end pretty irrelevant ways.
> 
> Yes, and it already has.  Most of it unprovoked.
> 
> > Now, what i am not sure about is why you are so eager to keep things in 
> > tree. Surely openchrome.org is the most popular project, surely it has 
> > all the features your users want. What are you afraid of?
> > 
> > X is modular. I don't see us come to terms any time soon. This 
> > flamewar has gone on long enough. Maybe it's time to choose the option 
> > that is most acceptable to most people and go back to doing something 
> > useful.
> 
> X is not modular in the sense that Ubuntu will ship two Via drivers.
> The reality is that a very small userbase is being asked to choose
> between two drivers, because one of the developers refuses to attempt to
> get along with the others.
> 
> With my distributor hat on, I don't care about the politics.  I don't
> care if Thomas called you a big stupid doo-doo head last year, or
> eloped with your girlfriend, or whatever.  At the end of the day, the
> only thing that matters is a working, solid driver that is useful to
> everyone (not half the people who own a Via).  Personal attacks don't
> matter a whit, so stop ripping on Thomas and Ivor every time you get a
> chance.  It's gone from 'petty' to 'stupid' to 'irritating' to flat-out
> annoying in the time it's been going on now, at every opportunity on
> mail and IRC.  Just bloody stop it.  It's not productive, and it doesn't
> help anyone's cause.  Nor does it influence anyone's decisions, except
> possibly to cause additional eye-rolling when certain names are
> mentioned.
> 
> Joy unto the world or something,
> Daniel
> 
Heh.

Luc Verhaegen.