On 2025-06-23 04:23 PM, E. Liddell via tde-devels wrote:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-Lots-Of-Reverts suggests
that unfortunately the real reason the main developer for X11Libre
broke
away from the main X project is that he isn't a very good coder.
It had nothing to do with him being a bad coder. It had been well known
for awhile that the X.org Foundation was holding back development from
the X11 project because they have their own conflict of interest in
regards to Wayland (and wanted to kill X11). Enrico was the only one who
was trying to contribute anything, and he ended up forming his fork
(before they reverted anything and banned him) because his merge
requests would get ignored. It should also be worth noting that the
article you linked is written by Michael Larabel, who is very clearly
Wayland-biased and has admitted it.
The changes Enrico made that ended up getting reverted were major code
cleanups and security improvements, and they were pushed in master and
asked for testing. Was he perfect? No, but it is the master branch and
nobody would help him test so he just kept moving on. Despite the
supposed "bad code", XLibre works almost flawlessly and it is a
community project, not just the guy who got kicked out of FDO. Every
issue users have faced have had quick bug fixes and there are major
improvements in both functionality and security without hurting the
users or developers under X.
There are also some indications of unhinged ideological leanings.
I do not understand how some guys opinions are in any way shape or form
relevant unless they are detrimental to his work on software. All that
should matter is making good working software. Regardless, Enrico is one
guy and there are many people contributing to XLibre. If he ends up in
the looney bin by chance, there are many others who will just continue
the XLibre project. The important work of starting a fork away from
those who think they own it and are trying to kill it has already been
finished.
--
Nick G. / Wirlaburla
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