modular -> monolithic

[Dan Nicholson]

On Jan 21, 2008 5:28 PM, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 11:54:11 +1030, Benjamin Close wrote:
>
> > Dan Nicholson wrote:
> > > I've been thinking for some time that it would be nice to mark some of
> > > the drivers as "unmaintained", similar to the "deprecated" modules.
> > > Clearly, some of the drivers (input-elo2300, etc.) are not being kept
> > > up to date with changes in the server. It would be nice to know which
> > > drivers have no current maintainer, and, hence, are probably going to
> > > be broken.
> > >
> > > This would at least tell users that they shouldn't bother with those
> > > drivers (the scripts could be changed to skip them, too, until they
> > > become "maintained" again). And if someone is relying on that driver
> > > working, then at least it is clear to them that it's probably gonna be
> > > broken and they better write (or pay someone else to write) some
> > > patches for it.
> > >
> > > Not a real solution, but at least people can know what's going on and
> > > not just suppose that the status quo will carry on indefinitely.
> > >
> > I second this idea. Within each driver have a file called README (or
> > similar) with two lines at the top of the file:
> >
> That information should be in
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/doc/xorg-docs/tree/MAINTAINERS
> I don't know how up to date it is kept, though.

That's nice; I wish I'd know about that before. Now, it would be nice
if the average user knew about that. It would also be nice if
unmaintained modules were not distributed in the katamari releases.
This definitely gives the impression that all the modules should work
(and build).

--
Dan