Commit missing from release

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Thu Feb 6 17:51:43 UTC 2025


On 2/6/25 06:15, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> On 03.02.25 21:12, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 
>> Because Xorg hasn't had a new release branch started since 2021, and no
>> one has
>> yet backported that to the existing Xorg 21.x release branch.
> 
> Why don't we just make a new release ?

There's weeks of work hiding behind that "just" there, which no one has
put in to date, though I think Povilas may be planning on doing it this
year - the more people who help, the more likely it is to succeed.

>> Xorg is minimally
>> maintained these days, mostly handling security bugs and fixes that
>> affect other X servers such as Xwayland.
> 
> That's not entirely correct. There's a lot other work been done, and
> even a very long list of MRs still waiting for merge. (haven't even
> started submitting new features)

I was referring to what's made it into published releases, not just the
git repo.

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