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At least I would not have been driving this release. Maybe someone else would have stepped up, it's hard to say. However there was no release manager for the l
by p12tic 5y ago
At least I would not have been driving this release.
Maybe someone else would have stepped up, it's hard to say. However there was no release manager for the last several years, so the likelihood of this outcome would have been small.
- mrweasel 5y agoThat seems to be very much in line with previous statements from Redhat and others that X is almost abandoned.
- wott 5y agoThe statements that they took the keys and then abandoned it.
- dralley 5y agoYou would be hard pressed to find any current-or-former Xorg developer who actually wants to work on Xorg anymore, regardless of their employer. The intersection between long-time core Xorg maintainers and people-who-started-the-Wayland project is nearly 100%. The fact that Red Hat doesn't see much future in Xorg reflects this, rather than the other way around. The other historically important corporate sponsor of Xorg development is Intel, and they seem to have reached the same conclusion. (I work for Red Hat, but not on anything graphics related)
- hulitu 5y agoI'll bite. If wayland is so great why do we need X11 ? Last i heard wayland had no window manager.
- happymellon 5y agoOther sponsors could have done the work, I haven't heard of a long term X11 dev that didn't switch because they enjoyed working on X11.