Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver with lots of code cleanups
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Re: Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver with lots of code cleanups
#2Seems interesting but unfortunately might be a bit political?
> It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies.
Complaining about DEI is a marker for a specific ideology. I see this and think great, a project of people who want to be allowed to "just crack jokes" but then get super defensive when they get called out on it.
It also makes me instantly suspect that their ejection from the project from which they forked had more to do with how they composed themselves rather than the fact that they were considering a fork.
If the dev was hoping to keep their project "apolitical," they should probably leave out the two paragraphs of politics...
Re: Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver with lots of code cleanups
#3Please note: I just stumbled upon this and have no affiliation with this project.
Re: Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver with lots of code cleanups
#4Seems interesting but unfortunately might be a bit political? > It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies. Complaining about DEI is a marker for a specific ideology. I see this and think great, a project of people who want to be allowed to "just crack jokes" but then get super defensive when they get called out on it. It also makes me instantly suspect that their ejection from the project f…
They're also explicitly pro-DEI, given the next paragraph.
"It doesn't matter which country you're coming from, your political views, your race, your sex, your age, your food menu, whether you wear boots or heels, whether you're furry or fairy, Conan or McKay, comic character, a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri, or just a boring average person. Anybody who's interested in bringing X forward is welcome."
Re: Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver with lots of code cleanups
#5Seems interesting but unfortunately might be a bit political? > It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies. Complaining about DEI is a marker for a specific ideology. I see this and think great, a project of people who want to be allowed to "just crack jokes" but then get super defensive when they get called out on it. It also makes me instantly suspect that their ejection from the project f…
Not just politically bad but I read through the authors contributions to X11 that got him banned and they were full of random renamings and irrelevant refactorings that seemed to have no reason to be there other than to look like he was changing lots of things. That’s why he was kicked out, because he kept making really technically bad pull requests, not for political reasons
Re: Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver with lots of code cleanups
#6Seems interesting but unfortunately might be a bit political? > It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies. Complaining about DEI is a marker for a specific ideology. I see this and think great, a project of people who want to be allowed to "just crack jokes" but then get super defensive when they get called out on it. It also makes me instantly suspect that their ejection from the project f…
They were ejected because they submitted some seriously broken patches, which triggered kind of a panic re-review of their previous patches, which concluded that they had been careless the whole time (Chesterton's Fence type stuff).
The political stuff is just an extra bonus.
Re: Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver with lots of code cleanups
#7Seems interesting but unfortunately might be a bit political? > It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies. Complaining about DEI is a marker for a specific ideology. I see this and think great, a project of people who want to be allowed to "just crack jokes" but then get super defensive when they get called out on it. It also makes me instantly suspect that their ejection from the project f…
They're also explicitly pro-DEI, given the next paragraph. "It doesn't matter which country you're coming from, your political views, your race, your sex, your age, your food menu, whether you wear boots or heels, whether you're furry or fairy, Conan or McKay, comic character, a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri, or just a boring average person. Anybody who's interested in bringing X forward is welcome."
That's Equality not Equity.
Re: Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver with lots of code cleanups
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're also explicitly pro-DEI, given the next paragraph. "It doesn't matter which country you're coming from, your political views, your race, your sex, your age, your food menu, whether you wear boots or heels, whether you're furry or fairy, Conan or McKay, comic character, a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri, or just a boring average person. Anybody who's interested in bringing X forward is welcome."
That's Equality not Equity.
That's Inclusion
Re: Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver with lots of code cleanups
#9Seems interesting but unfortunately might be a bit political? > It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies. Complaining about DEI is a marker for a specific ideology. I see this and think great, a project of people who want to be allowed to "just crack jokes" but then get super defensive when they get called out on it. It also makes me instantly suspect that their ejection from the project f…
They're also explicitly pro-DEI, given the next paragraph. "It doesn't matter which country you're coming from, your political views, your race, your sex, your age, your food menu, whether you wear boots or heels, whether you're furry or fairy, Conan or McKay, comic character, a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri, or just a boring average person. Anybody who's interested in bringing X forward is welcome."
It's the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" of contributors agreement.
Re: Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver with lots of code cleanups
#10I build my own distro, I build myself xorg (but I am writting my own wayland compositor in order to move away from x11), I was the witness of all their tantrums breaking things all over xorg.
I did appreciate a lot the revert of all their code.