Question about the future of Xorg

Felipe Contreras felipe.contreras at gmail.com
Sun Jun 8 00:23:46 UTC 2025


On Sat, Jun 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/7/25 13:19, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > I've often heard that there's only one developer working on Xorg, and
> > apparently not anymore. I want to find out if that's true.
>
> You can easily see for yourself that's not true by looking at either the
> git repos on https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg or the mailing list archives
> at https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/ and
> https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-commit/ (though for the latter you have
> to click into the individual messages since they all show gitlab as the sender).

I know that's not true, but that evidence doesn't say anything about
the future. Many people still believe Xorg is on life support and no
developer cares about it anymore.

A single statement from a few developers would do much more to dispel
those beliefs.

-- 
Felipe Contreras


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