X.Org Testing Ground Expands Its Scope To Illumos/OpenIndiana
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Originally posted by Vistaus View PostBut but but... Xorg was dead, right?
But now it has a dedicated maintainer. His name is Enrico Weigelt. Previously, it had no maintainer and only some patches here and there and part timers.
So now it is not dead anymore. Get it? Timelines are very simple to understand.
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Way to go Enrico Weigelt! I think it is good that some new things are happening and I hope he sticks around for a memorable amount of time as a full-timer in the role of dedicated maintainer. It is desperately needed. There are many who will not be moving on from x.org for a very long time and they need the kind of assistance that a dedicated maintainer provides.
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Originally posted by access View PostThis person has been spamming xserver MRs so there are going to be a lot of articles I guess.Originally posted by Myownfriend View PostYup. The last few times I checked the repo he made up the majority of the MRs for like 4 pagesOriginally posted by dragon321 View PostYeah, one developer spamming merge requests with code cleanups and refactorings. Xorg was never more alive.
I've heard of 'fat-shaming'. I think this must be 'dev-shaming' or something similar.
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He's free to do whatever cleanup he likes. It was an observation that a) there could be a lot of Phoronix articles about basic refactoring and b) if he hasn't coordinated with the maintainers then who will merge all these MRs. I'm more interested in if there'll be a fork because I'm not so certain that the xorg maintainers can be bothered to review and merge all these patches.
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I'm glad X is still being developed as Wayland is now even adversely affecting X DEs. For example, I run XFCE and the devs had to disable the ability to drag the upper right corner of the Whisker Menu to resize it because they're trying to make it work with Wayland eventually, and Wayland is in such a sorry state that even such simple tasks are either beyond its capability or require monumental effort to implement. Really, Wayland is just an absolutely convoluted mess.
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