Stepping back

[Adam Jackson]

tl;dr: I will not be release manager for 1.21, nor for anything
thereafter either, and this time that's probably permanent.

I won't make this too long to read though, it's not complicated. In a
technical sense, I don't feel that I've been an effective release
manager, evidenced if by nothing else than the wild gap between
projected and actual release dates for 1.20. I don't feel capable of
being all of individual contributor, reviewer of last resort, arbiter
of taste and technical direction, and tree sheriff; I certainly don't
feel capable of fulfilling all those roles while working largely in
isolation. From the project's perspective, I don't think it's healthy
for the same roles to continue to be held by the same few people. And,
personally, I've been more or less focused on xserver for well over a
decade, and I badly need a change of scenery.

That said, I'm not going far. I'm still going to be working on open
graphics. I have projects I want to work on that may well involve
xserver changes. I'll still be around for reviews and architecture
issues and such, though not _as_ around. I probably have a use for
another 1.19.x stable release, and almost certainly for a few 1.20.x,
and I'm happy to put in the work for those.

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.

- ajax