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Fedora 43 Change Proposal: X11Libre (system-wide) (discussion.fedoraproject.org)
submitted 2 weeks ago by DollyDuller@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev
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A long time has passed since the last major release of the X.Org X11 Xserver. Even bugfix releases have become rare. Therefore, this Change proposes replacing the nearly unmaintained upstream with a maintained fork, the X11Libre XServer.

The upstream maintainer of X11Libre had been the most active remaining contributor to the X.Org X11 Xserver before the fork. The Change Owner is well aware of the controversies around the X11Libre upstream maintainer (FreeDesktop.org CoC violations, controversial political views, conspiracy theories, rants against Red Hat), but believes that the benefit of shipping maintained software outweighs the potential annoyances when having to deal with upstream.

There is no intent to ever replace the Xwayland implementation, only the standalone Xserver and its subpackages (Xnest, Xvfb, Xephyr), and possibly the driver packages (xorg-x11-drv-*).

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[โ€“] tazeycrazy@feddit.uk 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Accepting something this premature into the project would cause stability issues. Even if he was a computing wizard one dev with a day job and conspiracy forms to keep up with is not able to do the maintenance that Xorg needs.

[โ€“] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

The proposal has been scrapped already.

I think maybe the person who proposed it did it to get the whole topic out of the way - from now on they can point every belligerent to the decision made.