X.Org Testing Ground Expands Its Scope To Illumos/OpenIndiana

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  • Weasel
    Senior Member
    • Feb 2017
    • 4510

    #11
    Originally posted by Myownfriend View Post
    Yup. The last few times I checked the repo he made up the majority of the MRs for like 4 pages
    Mad?

    /5chars

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    • Weasel
      Senior Member
      • Feb 2017
      • 4510

      #12
      Originally posted by reba View Post
      So the whole of the X.Org project is now a one man dev show?
      And it will still progress faster than Wayland.

      For the haters: stay salty, noobs.

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      • ezst036
        Senior Member
        • Feb 2018
        • 681

        #13
        Originally posted by Vistaus View Post
        But but but... Xorg was dead, right?
        It was. That is a fact.

        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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        • ezst036
          Senior Member
          • Feb 2018
          • 681

          #14
          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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          • dragon321
            Senior Member
            • May 2016
            • 874

            #15
            Originally posted by Vistaus View Post
            But but but... Xorg was dead, right?
            Yeah, one developer spamming merge requests with code cleanups and refactorings. Xorg was never more alive.

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            • Vistaus
              Senior Member
              • Jul 2013
              • 5112

              #16
              Originally posted by ezst036 View Post
              Get it? Timelines are very simple to understand.
              But jokes obviously aren't. Even when a very obvious joking emoji is used.

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              • andyprough
                Senior Member
                • Feb 2012
                • 2453

                #17
                Originally posted by access View Post
                This person has been spamming xserver MRs so there are going to be a lot of articles I guess.
                Originally posted by Myownfriend View Post
                Yup. The last few times I checked the repo he made up the majority of the MRs for like 4 pages
                Originally posted by dragon321 View Post
                Yeah, one developer spamming merge requests with code cleanups and refactorings. Xorg was never more alive.
                Pay attention developers - according to the brilliant Phoronix commentariat, if you are attempting to clean up code on an otherwise abandoned project, you are "spamming".

                I've heard of 'fat-shaming'. I think this must be 'dev-shaming' or something similar.

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                • access
                  Senior Member
                  • Dec 2019
                  • 199

                  #18
                  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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                  • muncrief
                    Senior Member
                    • Nov 2016
                    • 866

                    #19
                    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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                    • thomasjkenney
                      Phoronix Member
                      • Oct 2023
                      • 66

                      #20
                      It's probably not true, but I had a funny thought that the X folks are doing more and broader work to stay ahead of the W folks, who will have ever more work to produce a 'feature-complete' replacement for X.

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