From: Mike A. H. <mh...@re...> - 2001-09-18 23:06:01
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Ian D Romanick wrote: >Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:36:13 -0700 (PDT) >From: Ian D Romanick <id...@cs...> >To: dri...@li... >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >List-Id: <dri-devel.lists.sourceforge.net> >Subject: Re: Discussion of donation driven DRI project. > >> IMHO the whole idea of being donation-driven, is for the monetary >> donations to be a motivator. > >The one place where donations would help is in getting hardware for >spare-timers. Over the past two years I can't even begin to count the >number of times that I've heard "I can't work on that part because I don't >have the relevent hardware." If there was, for example, a DRI paypal >account, it could be used by the project lead to purchase / ship hardware to >developers. > >Just a thought... Very much agreed. This is moreso even for standard XFree86 driver development (2D et al.), and porting old 3.3.6 driver to 4.x. For the older hardware, people would be likely willing to port the drivers given specs and some hardware gratis. What I personally would like to see, if possible - and this isn't really DRI related, is for the hardware that is fairly IMHO poorly supported (s3/Trident/neomagic, and a few others) to get more functional 2D drivers. Nothing mission critical, but as 3.3.6 disappears into oblivion, it will be nice to have those older hardware at least functioning stable if not full featured in 4.x. For the DRI side of things, probably a non-public list similar to the XFree86 member-only lists could be set up with which serious project members (such as the new Mach64 people) could be set up, and subject to whatever NDA's are required to get going. Such an effort would be a doorway to future development, and a necessity if the community is going to get involved in a larger way than it has been previously. Of course wide open forums are alway preferred, but when dealing with NDA info from 3D chipmakers, they'll be more likely to help under NDA and private lists than on open lists. Daryll, are there dri project private lists I presume that could be extended to new developers similar to XFree86's developmental list? TTYL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. Phone: (705)949-2136 http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris Red Hat XFree86 mailing list: xfr...@re... IRC: #redhat-xfree86 on irc.openprojects.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ro...@do...:~# rm -f /bin/laden |