Stepping back

[Michel Dänzer]

On 2018-05-15 07:43 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> On 05/14/18 12:58 PM, Keith Packard wrote:
>> Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> 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.


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