State of X.Org Report
Jeremy C. Reed
reed at reedmedia.net
Fri Feb 22 10:20:01 EST 2013
On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, Bart Massey wrote:
> In keeping with the X.Org goal of about one release per
> year, Release 7.7 of the X Window System occurred 6 June
> 2012. Release 7.6 was about 1.5 years earlier, in
> December 2010. However, there is some feeling among the
> developer community that the "katamari" point releases
> of all of X are no longer terribly useful, yet are a big
> consumer of developer resources. Thus, it is likely that
> these releases will be farther apart in the future, or
> will cease altogether--not because development pace is
> decreasing, but because point releases of individual
> components are a better mechanism in the "new" world of
> modularized X development.
Does X.org have an automated build and test farm that will prove that
the important individual components continue to build and work together?
A common problem I see as a package maintainer is mismatch of components
due to upgrading one X.org component but not some other (missing
features, missing headers, etc.). pkg-config dependency checking may
not reflect accurately the versions required. I have also seen that some
new version is required even though that new version is not publicly
released yet (it is in git, but no tarball release).
Maybe the large yearly all of X release is useful as a manual
confirmation until an automated confirmation is available.
> Sprint, in March, was a "virtual" online event that
> produced an "X.Org New Developer Guide" that has not
Where is this? A google search and wiki search doesn't find it for me.
(I do see ModularDevelopersGuide.) Is it in the wiki or in git?
Thank you very much for your report. Was there any board discussion
about licensing? In particular, the concern I see is with various driver
support changed from MIT-licensed X.org code to using code provided in
the Linux kernel tree (such as under drivers/gpu/drm). Much of that
newer Linux code is MIT-licensed, but many files are missing licenses,
some are marked with GPL2 or GPL2-or-later, and some are MIT-licensed
but tagged with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.
Jeremy C. Reed
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