emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) (04/05/90)
In article <9004050051.AA11859@expire.lcs.mit.edu> rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) writes:
From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Date: 5 Apr 90 00:51:11 GMT
Access to bug reports and their status is one of the benefits of membership
in the X Consortium. Many bugs get fixed without ever being published as
public patches; access to these fixes is also one of the benefits of
membership. We have no plans to make bug reports generally available.
alt.x-windows.bugs is an unmoderated group for the reporting of
bugs in X. Posters should use the standard bug reporting form
used to report bugs to xbugs@expo.lcs.mit.edu, and arrange for
cc'ing a copy of the bug report to this group. (A mail alias
will be set up at some point to make this easier.)
It appears to be the policy of the X Consortium that bug reports are
available only to Consortium members, as a benefit of membership. By
posting your bug reports to alt.x-windows.bugs, you avoid this
information hoarding and enable the entire community to share this
valuable information.
The group is unmoderated because it's easy to set up that way. It may
prove more useful at some point to moderate the group. This group is
not officially santioned by the X Consortium; there's no guarantee
that any of them will read it. Some articles in alt.x-windows.bugs
will be cc'ed in after the fact from comp.windows.x with permission
from the original poster.
alt.x-windows.bugs is the first of several newsgroups in the alt
hierarchy dealing with X11. Your input in further groups is welcomed,
that discussion will happen in alt.config. I hope that some of the
alt.x-windows groups will eventually appear as comp.windows.x
subgroups, once the names are decided on and some useful traffic
appears.
--Ed
Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept.