On 2018-05-15 07:43 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > On 05/14/18 12:58 PM, Keith Packard wrote: >> Adam Jackson <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> 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. > > 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.
FWIW, since all major Linux distros are now using Wayland by default, I do think it's a good time to transition the Xorg DDX to more of a maintenance mode. Any significant new functionality should be developed for Wayland first, adding it to Xorg as well should only be considered second. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Mesa and X developer _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
