Re: [xougen] PRE-ANNOUNCE: hackers release later today

[Spundun Bhatt]

Jonathan Walther wrote:
> We will make the
> source code available courtesy of the "tla push-mirror"
>   
> command, on Savannah and Freedesktop.org shortly afterward.
>   
Hi, first of all, my best wishes to the project on its inaugeration.
disclaimer: I am not an X hacker, I havent contributed much to OSS
except for some testing and bug reporting.

>From the website of the project, this is what I inferred.
- For release 1, the goals of xouvert and that of xserver/xlib projects
are orthogonal.
- For release 2, the goals for these project seem to start overlapping.
So from 10 miles distance, it looks like it will be a good idea if
around that time the efforts were merged into on project.

A couple of days back I had a discussion on freenode/#xwin irc channel
and I concluded that the devs on that channel are not willing to switch
to arch any time soon. (you probably know about it already).

Something like the repositery protocol should not come in the way of
collaboration, and I suggest that you also mainain a cvs repository of
xouvert. This is not my original whacky idea or anything like that. The
project maintainer of rhythmbox (walters: you can get hold of him on
gimpnet/#gnome or #rhythmbox) along with many of his devs, does all his
work in their arch repository. While they keep it synced with gnome
cvs, mainly for translators who dont want to use arch.

I think you should talk to walters and do something like this. Though
there is no immediate need to do this, just something to keep in mind
before somebody starts an arch/cvs flame war :)

All the best for your new project
Spundun