Re: Listing X window system activities

[Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com>]

An unnamed Administration source, Owen Taylor, wrote:
% Inspired by conversations on the "xwin.org" conference call and
% elsewhere, and also by looking at the XFree86 mission statement, I
% decided to sit down tonight and try to answer the question:
% 
%  "What is the complete set of activities *someone* needs to
%   do to keep to the X window system healthy."
%    
%  http://gtk.org/~otaylor/x/activities.html
% 
% Is what I came up with; I'm not going to make any claim that it
% is the world's most stimulating reading material. Still if 
% anybody wants to look it over and send me things they think 
% are missing (or other comments), I'd appreciate it.

This seems like a good start. Although I have no special expertise
vis-a-vis X, here are a couple of suggestions (perhaps just me
thinking out loud...):

° Under "Fostering Innovation", I would add some notion of providing
  a sandbox in which new whiz-bang ideas and technologies can be proposed,
  refined, and a sample implementation provided. Most of the bullet points 
  hint at this, save for the sample implementation idea, so perhaps the 
  point needs to be made explicitly.
° Does code cleanup and decruftification belong under "Advancing the 
  Codebase"? Along the same lines, what about clearly identifying the 
  standards to which submitted code must/should/ought comply?

Regards,

Kurt
-- 
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
		-- Walt Kelly, "Pogo"
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