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Re:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Plans for Wayland and Xorg Se... by mjw1007 on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @12:10PM (#38448075)
If the X11-and-Wayland maintainers had put X11 up for adoption that might not have been the case.

That is, they might have said "We're looking for new maintainers for X11. They will be responsible for its future direction, representing X11's interests to the kernel and to distributions, and deciding when (and if) X11 is to be declared deprecated."

As far as I can make out, what they did instead was say "We're looking for people to fix bugs in X11, but they won't get to make any nontrivial decisions."

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Re:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Plans for Wayland and Xorg Se... by vetinari on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @03:00PM (#38450437)
By fixing bugs in X11, you get to make nontrivial decisions; that's the point why nobody wants to touch it.
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Re:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Plans for Wayland and Xorg Se... by robert_foss on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @01:03AM (#38456084)
Anyone is welcome to contribute. You still can I you feel so inclined[1].

Contributions have never been discouraged, but no one wants to work on xserver. Remember, this is a 20 year old codebase. With all the cruft and dark corners you would expect and more.

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver

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