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The issue is X11 as we know it has no developers left. If nobody is around to maintain it, the world will move on, no ramrod necessary. More info: https://ajaxn

The issue is X11 as we know it has no developers left. If nobody is around to maintain it, the world will move on, no ramrod necessary. More info: https://ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-abandoning-x-server.html https://ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-abandoning-x-server...

sprash 5y ago
There are plenty of developers left. It is just release management refuses to make new releases.
- zaxcellent 5y ago
  I suppose that theory is possible. A proxy for developer availability might be to check the primary mailing list of xorg for the full month of march: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2021-March/thread.html https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2021-March/thread.ht.... There wasn't much directly related to xorg-xserver itself. As a point of comparison, here is March for QEMU: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-03/threads.html https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-03/thr...
  - sprash 5y ago
    After years of misleading propaganda about how X11 is "deprecated" now I would expect no less. Besides maybe the main communication channel for development is somewhere else.
    - taway098123 5y ago
      Most developer activity related to Linux graphics is in dri-devel, it's been like this for quite a while. The X development channels have been mostly dead outside of discussion of XWayland. I doubt you'll see anyone starting any major new features in X.
      - pantalaimon 5y ago
        There are still some active PRs https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests?sort=updated_desc https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests... Someone is trying to get multi-touch support merged, but is waiting for a review.
        taway098123 5y ago
        I hope someone comes along to review those, but I don't see there being much interest in it.
- kaba0 5y ago
  If this lie helps you sleep at night.. The reality is out there, why don’t you have a look?

sprash 5y ago

There are plenty of developers left. It is just release management refuses to make new releases.

zaxcellent 5y ago
I suppose that theory is possible. A proxy for developer availability might be to check the primary mailing list of xorg for the full month of march: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2021-March/thread.html https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2021-March/thread.ht.... There wasn't much directly related to xorg-xserver itself. As a point of comparison, here is March for QEMU: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-03/threads.html https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-03/thr...
- sprash 5y ago
  After years of misleading propaganda about how X11 is "deprecated" now I would expect no less. Besides maybe the main communication channel for development is somewhere else.
  - taway098123 5y ago
    Most developer activity related to Linux graphics is in dri-devel, it's been like this for quite a while. The X development channels have been mostly dead outside of discussion of XWayland. I doubt you'll see anyone starting any major new features in X.
    - pantalaimon 5y ago
      There are still some active PRs https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests?sort=updated_desc https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests... Someone is trying to get multi-touch support merged, but is waiting for a review.
      - taway098123 5y ago
        I hope someone comes along to review those, but I don't see there being much interest in it.
kaba0 5y ago
If this lie helps you sleep at night.. The reality is out there, why don’t you have a look?