[SDL] Feature of SDL

[Andreas Schiffler]

I think there is no harm to fork SDL into github.

If hg-git (http://hg-git.github.com) is used, each "version" can benefit 
from checkins to either repo relatively easily.

For example, I had created a SDL1.3 fork for the CoApp work last year 
(https://github.com/ferzkopp/SDL) and ported some of the VisualStudio 
related updates back into SDL "main" later.

--Andreas

On 5/30/2012 7:26 AM, Dimitris Zenios wrote:
> Recently i made a patch to add support for XInput2 extension
> implementing relative mouse motion when using X11 video.Even though i
> would love to have the patch added to the main branch i cannot poke
> Sam or Ryan every day in order to review my patch.If we had someone
> though who could approve,review patches and had more time then things
> will most probably go faster.
>
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Alex Barry<alex.barry at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I agree with the slippery slope, but Ryan and Sam have both made it clear
>> that with their current life situations, it's not possible for them to put
>> in the appropriate amount of time and effort to keep things going which is
>> the whole point of this thread.
>> I have a fairly flexible job (I work at home as a private software
>> consultant for a particular company), and I'm willing to put in some time,
>> but I also have some limitations that I'm fairly recently married (last
>> August).  Sam, Ryan, maybe if you gents have some free time I can skype with
>> you (or whatever) and we'll see if I have enough time to do whatever it is
>> that you need a community person to do to get some of these patches
>> reviewed.  Sadly, I don't have an iOS device, so I don't think I can
>> reasonably do any particularly authoritative patches in there, but I suppose
>> I could find an emulator of some sorts.
>> -Alex
>>
>> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Gabriel Jacobo<gabomdq at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I understand the need to speed things up a bit, I've been frustrated more
>>> than once by having patches left in the tracker for ages without attention
>>> (I've done the patch for #1308 and it's there gathering dust after endless
>>> iterations and plenty of hours put into it), or posing questions without
>>> feedback, but I'd rather give Sam and Ryan some space and let them do things
>>> at their own speed, rather than forking SDL on a separate repository, even
>>> as under an experimental or unofficial banner, because I think that will
>>> drive the community down a slippery slope, which ends in a real fork with
>>> the associated scattering of the already slim human resources.
>>> My two cents, I think whatever we work out, we should do it under the
>>> official repositories (an experimental repo under hg.libsdl.org?, an
>>> experimental/development branch in the official SDL repo?)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Gabriel.
>>>
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