X11 Specification process

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 8/23/24 03:40, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> hi folks,
> 
> 
> I'm curious how the protocol specification process practically works
> these days.
> 
> Demi proposed some interesting things (*1), which IMHO should be
> formally specificed.
> 
> How's the decision exact process for such proposals ?

I don't think we have a formal process these days.

> Where are the spec documents located, how are they maintained ?

In https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/xorgproto/ - some in plain *.txt
files in the top-level directory, some in docbook & other formats under specs/.

So for the example you gave of Demi's MR against the MIT-SHM extension, it
should also be updating specs/xextproto/shm.xml - though as that document
seems to be missing the updates for version 1.1 & 1.2 already, I can't blame
her for not doing that in this case.

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