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Good! Xorg needs to become a community project again. The current maintainers are almost without exception full time paid employees and act solely in the intere
by sprash 6y ago
Good! Xorg needs to become a community project again. The current maintainers are almost without exception full time paid employees and act solely in the interest of their employers and NOT in the interest of the FOSS community. Their employers have decided to sabotage the ecosystem by breaking established community standards. Maintaining backwards compatibility is the most important thing to keep any ecosystem alive. This means the community should abandon their software (e.g. Wayland) and put people in charge of X11 that start acting in their interest.
- dyingkneepad 6y agoJust because Red Hat is moving resources away it doesn't really mean it is sabotaging the project, just that it's realigning the priorities. Instead of blaming them for not caring anymore, we should blame ourselves for empowering them so much? Ajax seems pretty open in his invitation for people to come and help maintain the things RH doesn't care about anymore...
- sprash 6y agoI'm blaming nobody. I'm just saying that there is a chance for X11 to become a real community project again. Never waste a good crisis.
- sergeykish 6y ago> Their employers have decided to sabotage the ecosystem by breaking established community standards.
- nsajko 6y ago> Just because Red Hat is moving resources away it doesn't really mean it is sabotaging the project I think you may have misunderstood the commenter you replied to: they were probably referring to the careless breaking of backwards compatibility that was being done while Xorg was still nominally being maintained. I think a good example is refactoring the Server while silently breaking extensions they don't care about. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/315456 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/3...