Anno domini 2025 Mon, 23 Jun 20:21:52 -0500 Wirlaburla via tde-devels scripsit: > 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. IMO Devuan is going to include Xlibre sooner or later - at least, when Debian is ging the dark road again. Just as OpenBSD did withtheir fork of Xorg. Nik > > > 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. > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ tde-devels mailing list -- devels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devels-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/devels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
