On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM Aoife Moloney via devel-announce <devel-annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > Wiki - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/X11Libre > Discussion thread - > https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f43-change-proposal-x11libre-system-wide/156330 > > This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux. > This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes > process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive > community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved > by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. > > == Summary == > > Replace the X.Org X11 Xserver (<code>xorg-x11-xserver</code>) with the > [https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver X11Libre (XLibre) Xserver], an > actively maintained fork. > > == Disclaimer == > > '''The Change Owner does NOT share or endorse upstream's political > views!''' Given that those can be found even in the upstream > project-wide <code>README.md</code>, the Change Owner feels obliged to > make this clarification. > > == Owner == > * Name: [[User:Kkofler| Kevin Kofler]] > * Email: ke...@tigcc.ticalc.org > > > > == Detailed Description == > > 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.
This isn't a real suggestion is it, the fork is 2 weeks old and has nobody competent enough to maintain the X server working on it? If Kevin parallel packages X11libre for 3-4 Fedora releases, and upstream demonstrates competency, some release processes, bug fixes and CVE handling across the next 2 years or so, then it might be reasonable to submit this level of Change, so far this fork is a bunch of patches that breaks stuff, and reverts that kinda fix it after the point. Just because someone says they are maintaining an X.org fork, doesn't mean the X.org fork is maintained well enough to switch a distro to it. I strongly recommend FESCO to vote against this at this time, and instead Kevin do the work to show that this proposal might make sense in 3-4 releases time, Dave. -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
