Ansification of X.Org code & other cleanup work (fwd)

[Peter Breitenlohner]

Yesterday I sent this to the list, but not being subsribed it was of course
rejected.

regards
Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu.mpg.de>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:05:13 +0200 (CEST)
From: Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu.mpg.de>
To: Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM>
Cc: xorg <xorg at lists.freedesktop.org>,
     Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade <pcpa at mandriva.com.br>
Subject: Re: Ansification of X.Org code & other cleanup work

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> I'd really like to encourage the people who want to tackle these issues to 
> get
> someone to help them apply their first few patches, then apply for git commit
> access so you can commit them directly, because if you wait for the few of us
> trawling the submitted patches to get to them, many of your patches will be
> uselessly out-of-sync with the code by the time we get to them and you'll be
> seeing those errors for months or longer until we do.

Hi Allan,

I'd like to do that; for the moment I would restrict this to these three areas:

(1) trivial changes to avoid gcc warnings (certainly not adding const or
other changes to public APIs).

(2) trivial changes to the autotools build process, e.g., prevent generated
files from being distibuted (in a VPATH build they may be used in preference
to the freshly generated ones; for the xorg-server-1.5.2 that has the
consequence that the reported Build Date actually is the release date).

(3) Ansification of first libICE (the first one to build), and later libSM
and libXpm.

During the last several month I was actively working on the TeX Live svn,
and am therefore quite familiar with svn (update, merge, diff, commit), but
my git experience is restricted to clone and pull. Here I would certainly
need some assistance (ideally by someone who can translate svn commands into
equivalent git commands).

Given commit access, I would use that only for the subjects listed above
(unless given authority to do more).

Regards
Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu.mpg.de>