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> 1. The old, mostly working thing waits your commit

From what i understand there are commits, just not releases. What is the point of committing if the maintainers do not bother to make a proper release that your work can be distributed to the users?



Do you imply X.Org sabotaged? Issues fixed, system is stable and only maintainer stops it? You should notify disillusioned people who still commit to the repo [1].

[1] https://github.com/freedesktop/xorg-xserver/graphs/commit-ac...


I do not imply anything. The fact is that there haven't been any release for two years yet there is work apparently being done.

So why aren't release being made?


I would expect issues are not fixed, system is not stable.

> The primary development code repository can be found at:

> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver

Quite a lot of issues.


Ah yes, such classic X11 issues as Google Sign in not working [0]. Everyone knows that only Wayland is webscale enough for Google.

[0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1092


Quick glance shows real issues

> Xorg xserver above 1.20.8-3 crashes when using displaylink/evdi

> Applications do not repaint in a timely fashion, resulting in screen corruption

> xorg-x11-server quit unexpectedly on windows resize

> x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.8-r1 crashes

> Xorg crashes after unlocking with lightdm

> Input events can be sent for disabled device, crashing GTK and mutter

> when ubuntu runing Virtualbox, Ctal+Alt+F1 Ctal+Alt+F17 switch cause memleak

> Server crash at startup

> Delay and black screen when the screen is rotated.

> xorg-server-1.20.9 crash on startup




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