Hi, On 15 May 2018 at 06:43, Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/14/18 12:58 PM, Keith Packard wrote: >> Adam Jackson <[email protected]> writes: >>> tl;dr: I will not be release manager for 1.21, nor for anything >>> thereafter either, and this time that's probably permanent. >> >> I'd like to thank you for all of the work you have done and with you all >> the best in your next adventures. > > +1
+lots Really appreciate the effort you made to herd everything into place and go well out of your way to land everything. >>> As for what this means for tree management and future release plans, >>> well, I can't answer that, that's sort of the point. There's a >>> community discussion that needs to happen there, and my opinions can't >>> dominate that if I'm serious about stepping back. >> >> We can start discussions now, and I think we should plan on holding a >> discussion about this during XDC in September. > > While in person discussions can be efficient, I do wonder if limiting > them to people who can travel to XDC is how we end up burning out the > same folks over and over. > > I don't have great answers as more of us step back like I did a few > years back and Adam is doing now, but with few new folks coming into > our maintainer fold in the past decade, we need to figure out how to > both get more contributors and how to grow them into maintainers. We've been facing the same question in Wayland. Here's what I wrote up about what I think we should do with that: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-May/038100.html Personally I think having longer discussions and write-ups in bugs/issues would make the development a lot more accessible. The list is great and it does serve its purpose, but it throws up a barrier to entry: you have to be subscribed to the list and get all the mail, to participate in discussion. (And that's before you get to the barrier to entry of git-send-email etc.) I don't really have enough of a stake to make suggestions for X development, but that might at least be a good starting point for spreading the load a bit. > While Wayland is certainly making great strides, I don't think the world > is yet ready to stop using X altogether, but it's getting harder and > harder for us to keep X alive. Ah yes, the year of Wayland on the desktop. ;) Cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
