From: vehemens <veh...@ve...> - 2009-11-29 22:53:41
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On Sunday 29 November 2009 14:23:44 Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > On Sunday 29 November 2009 14:16:13 vehemens wrote: > > [snip] > > > Your missing the point of using a development structure which supports > > collobration. > > [snip] > > > The difference is that you are the only one doing the work now. > > [snip] > > > Again, your missing the point of using a development structure which > > supports collobration. > > [snip] > > > It hasn't moved "... well beyond what was in drm git." If you believe > > otherwise, your only fooling yourself. > > [snip] > > > See above comments. > > Yes, you have made it abundantly clear that you are in favor of having a > centralized repository for all DRM development. The fact is, that's not > happening now and is not going to happen. That used to be the case, but > the linux DRM developers did not see an advantage to that for themselves, > and though rnoland was unhappy with the decision (because it made his job > harder), the linux DRM developers did what they felt was best. You assuming what what good for Linux for a developer, is also good for a BSD developer. As for making rnoland's job harder, it was his choice. > Since then, rnoland has made significant progress porting the linux > specific changes over to FreeBSD. If you don't believe the changes he's > made in the FreeBSD source tree go 'well beyond' what had been in mesa/drm > on freedesktop git then you are fooling yourself. Frankly, if I were > Robert, I would be offended by that statement you made. I've diffed the code. Suggest that you do the same and see if you can still make the same statements. > As has been said time and again, the kernel specific code in mesa/drm > serves no purpose other than providing a historical log of the DRM > development from that time, so there was no harm in pulling it. The > FreeBSD DRM code follows the same development model as the rest of FreeBSD, > and I have a hard time believing that such a model doesn't support > collaboration. That is certainly an accusation I've never once heard made > against the FreeBSD project in recent years till just now. If one stashes his/her development code where few if any can get at it, I don't consider that collaboration. > Now, the changes are made, and what's done is done. Can we please just > move on? I was going to move along, but I felt your email had so many errors, I couldn't let it got by. |