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What is the process to become a release manager for X11 without forking it? I assume you can't just walk in there and say "I'll do that".
by sprash 6y ago
What is the process to become a release manager for X11 without forking it? I assume you can't just walk in there and say "I'll do that".
- tinus_hn 6y agoI assume it starts with showing you’re up to it by putting in the work. You don’t need to be the release manager to contribute patches.
- sergeykish 6y agoWho would risk stability? And what is the issue with forking? ffmpeg/libav, openssl/libressl managed fine. No fork is the symptom.
- sprash 6y agoThe other forks you are mentioning are a completely different problem because there were inherent philosophical differences among developers. X11 just needs "a release" so that package maintainers and distros can push updates. If you fork it you only make things worse.
- sergeykish 6y agoJust needs a release that could contain bugs, could contain exploits. And current maintainers are not going to risk? I'm typing on X11 system, and it works, proving previous maintainers got it right. I am fine if active developers make a fork, prove its worth, some distributions adopting it, finally fork merged into base with new leadership.
- bombcar 6y agoYou fork it and your fork becomes the mainly used one is how it normally happens.