Some might not see how much work it was to maintain xorg server

Re:Some might not see how much work it was to maintain xorg ... by dralley on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @05:04PM (#38452002)

>two weeks of QA,

What he said was, a couple of weeks of QA, per stack, per hardware enablement.

Given that new hardware is constantly being released every couple of months, that adds up to a lot of QA. And as they said in a followup, that's "a couple of weeks" for a team of people and not just one or two.

So yeah, "two (additional) weeks of QA" wouldn't be that bad, but really it's more like "two (additional) weeks of QA, multiple times a year, for a team of multiple people". And that's not insubstantial given the meager revenue opportunities in the desktop linux market.

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Re:Some might not see how much work it was to maintain xorg ... by ndiddy on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @05:37PM (#38452447)

Thanks for replying, that makes more sense. Since you work for Red Hat, do you happen to know what the process for certifying hardware is? I'm curious to know what goes into guaranteeing that a given hardware configuration is supported by RHEL.

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Re:Some might not see how much work it was to maintain xorg ... by dralley on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @05:48PM (#38452593)

I have no idea, sorry. I've never worked on any part of RHEL.

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