[Xorg] idea for xorg development

[Roland Mainz]

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > Well i was searching through the mailing lists and was really curious
> > about the direction that xorg was headed and have had some trouble
> > finding out about this and I had an idea. I think a really good feature
> > to add to xorg would be a roadmap. While there doesn't have to be
> > specific dates it might be nice to see something of a rough roadmap and
> > maybe even which people are specifically incharge of which things. This
> > would help potential new developers see what direction xorg is headed
> > and start to work on some of those features and contact anyone which
> > can help get them started. What does everyone think?
> 
> We should probably start putting something like this in the wiki.
> 
> The major projects I'm aware of that are likely to make the next release
> are (and the people I think are working on them, though certainly
> incomplete and possibly inaccurate):
> 
>    - New Extensions:  Xfixes, Damage, Xevie, Composite
>         (Keith Packard, Stuart Krietman, Deron Johnson)

... you forgot "XST" (Alexander Gelfenbain, Jay Hobson, Alan Coopersmith
etc.) ... :)

>    - Autotool build support (Keith Packard, Daniel Stone, and several others)
>    - Distributed Multi-Head X (DMX) (Kevin Martin and others)
>    - New unified XKB database (Ivan Pascal & Sergey V. Udaltsov)
> 
> I know Roland Mainz has also been working on Xprint improvements,

I am wondering why I always get the credits... others like Drew Parsons,
Giuseppe Ghibò, Jay Hobson, Masaki Katakai, Simon Montagu, you and
others are hacking that code, too...

> and a number of people (including me) have been working on bug fixes,
> though there are many unclaimed bugs still open in bugzilla.
> 
> One project I know many people want to see, but which I don't
> know of anyone working on, is converting all the docs to SGML or XML.

Before we start doing that we would need the framework to autogenerate
the man and HTML pages from the DocBook masters.
I'll try to meet with Egbert... maybe next week (or at least one or two
weeks before the LinuxTag here in Germany) ... then we can stick our
heads together and think about some Imake rules for that stuff. If that
part is done we should convert the major pages (e.g. X11(7)) to DocBook
and then incrementally dig throught the tree from that point.

BTW: Sun has japanese versions of X11(7) etc. - they aren't part of the
Xorg tree, right ?

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Bye,
Roland

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