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

[keit99]

So the whole of the X.Org project is now a one man dev show?

looks like it. But you gotta give enrico credit where it's due, he actually seems to be doing good work on Xorg

[kpedersen]

it was cool when it was hip but it stopped being cool a long, long time ago

Luckily "hipness" isn't relevant when it comes to choosing the best tool for the job.

an antivaxxer is the biggest contributor

Their technical skills are what matters. Not whether you personally want to kiss them or not.

[andyprough]

as if I've ever needed more of a reason to avoid xorg than now. an antivaxxer is the biggest contributor LOL. it makes fun of itself.

it was cool when it was hip but it stopped being cool a long, long time ago

You aren't going to catch cooties from him by using his code. Lighten up, Francis.

[andyprough]

I don't trust code written by someone so devoid of critical thinking skills that they post anti-vax conspiracy on the LKML.

Let us know when you have removed every package from your system that was ever contributed to by anyone who did not 100% agree with your views on complex political, legal and medical issues. I'm guessing you will be left with approximately 0 packages. Should be one heckuva fun system. Gaming on that rig is going to be lit.

[andyprough]

Sorry, I've only ever heard of one person who has said that in the FOSS world. Again, being anti-authoritarian policy is one thing but believing that outrageous nonsense is a gargantuan red flag. It's even more of a red flag to post it on the LKML. That's somehow dumber than anything I've ever posted here and I've posted some dumb shit. Except what I've posted is on a random web forum and not the most important public mailing list in the world.

Here's another good example:

Just dumb stupid behavior on the LKML and speaks for itself.

Sounds like he engages in the free expression of ideas, same as you. Still nothing you've said implicates any lack of skill as a programmer. Without that, there's nothing to debate.

[dragon321]

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.

I will take it back when there will be serious work that will fix X11 issues and limitations. Considering his opinion on Wayland it seems pretty unlikely that he is interested in doing that so that makes me believe that work is nothing more than putting X11 on life support instead of serious rework.

[deusexmachina]

Turns out it's big among the antivaxxers.

You're trying to associate not going along with Wayland with being anti-vaccine? Amazing how blatantly political the Wayland shills are... It is almost as if it is part of a left wing political movement to subvert FOSS. What else would explain the need for this association - including the 14 supposedly organic upvotes!

[ssokolow]

It is almost as if it is part of a left wing political movement to subvert FOSS.

Neither the left wing nor movements have a monopoly on those sorts of tactics. It's probably just an organic accumulation of people who, for whatever reason, have tied their sense of identity to Wayland and feel threatened by the idea that criticisms of its suitability for certain user groups in its current form might have merit.

(I suspect it's people who see GNOME as "my tribe" and feel threatened by evidence that GNOME's vision of a perfect desktop isn't suitable for all needs, given that GNOME seems to be far and away the most wedded to "Wayland is X and not Y. If you claim you need Y from X11 for your workflow, then your workflow is wrong.")

[deusexmachina]

More like left hand path vs right hand path. Ends justify the means and lying is OK to achieve an end vs one should never lie. After all truth is not on a spectrum. Relativists seem desperate to leave the current reality so we can all meet in the future ASAP. It must be a very unpleasant psychological state to be in.

[Myownfriend]

You're trying to associate not going along with Wayland with being anti-vaccine? Amazing how blatantly political the Wayland shills are... It is almost as if it is part of a left wing political movement to subvert FOSS. What else would explain the need for this association - including the 14 supposedly organic upvotes!

I was saying somethinh that I noticed to be true. Besides the guy whose commits are currently taking up pages of the Xorh's pull requests, the "boycott Wayland" are also extremely right wing and can easily get triggered to on anti-"woke" rants.

How else did you think I knew what the politics of these people are? Lol They make their opinions known. A lot of the pro-X11 crowd here will go off on rants any time that a CoC is mentioned, especially if it has to do with Gnome because of all Gnome contributors are blue-aired, trans SJWs, and they hate that.

Ya'll are political and don't shut the fuck up about shit. Then when you get called out for shit you try to make it sound like the people calling you out are the obsessed ones who are in a Gnome/Wayland/Red hat/globalist/NWO/SJW cult lol