XLibre Xserver: Banned by Red Hat Developer Plans Revival of X11
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Re: XLibre Xserver: Banned by Red Hat Developer Plans Revival of X11
#2i am all for sunsetting X11, move it to the attic, abandon it, whatever.
but banning someone who cares about it and removing their proposed contributions, feels hostile.
letting interested people take over an old project that you no longer care about is part of what FOSS is all about.
Re: XLibre Xserver: Banned by Red Hat Developer Plans Revival of X11
#3i am all for sunsetting X11, move it to the attic, abandon it, whatever. but banning someone who cares about it and removing their proposed contributions, feels hostile. letting interested people take over an old project that you no longer care about is part of what FOSS is all about.
The continuation of X11 is likely not why he was banned.
Re: XLibre Xserver: Banned by Red Hat Developer Plans Revival of X11
#4i am all for sunsetting X11, move it to the attic, abandon it, whatever. but banning someone who cares about it and removing their proposed contributions, feels hostile. letting interested people take over an old project that you no longer care about is part of what FOSS is all about.
The continuation of X11 is likely not why he was banned.
bad behavior on the guys part, if that is what you are thinking, should also not warrant the removal of all PRs, tickets and what not, unless that was all over his messages in them.
Re: XLibre Xserver: Banned by Red Hat Developer Plans Revival of X11
#5related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44199502
Re: XLibre Xserver: Banned by Red Hat Developer Plans Revival of X11
#6i am all for sunsetting X11, move it to the attic, abandon it, whatever. but banning someone who cares about it and removing their proposed contributions, feels hostile. letting interested people take over an old project that you no longer care about is part of what FOSS is all about.
The continuation of X11 is likely not why he was banned.
> The continuation of X11 is likely not why he was banned.
Well, according to the article, Weigelt claims he was censored and that the ban was an attempt by Red Hat to eliminate competition and push for the adoption of Wayland; this action resulted in the deletion of his account, repositories, tickets, and over 140 merge requests associated with the Xorg project.
Re: XLibre Xserver: Banned by Red Hat Developer Plans Revival of X11
#7i am all for sunsetting X11, move it to the attic, abandon it, whatever. but banning someone who cares about it and removing their proposed contributions, feels hostile. letting interested people take over an old project that you no longer care about is part of what FOSS is all about.
> i am all for sunsetting X11, move it to the attic, abandon it, whatever.
Despite its flaws, X11 has key strengths and its abandonment is not without controversy. The same developers maintaining Xorg also created Wayland, so there might be a conflict of interest.
Re: XLibre Xserver: Banned by Red Hat Developer Plans Revival of X11
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
The continuation of X11 is likely not why he was banned.
> The continuation of X11 is likely not why he was banned. Well, according to the article, Weigelt claims he was censored and that the ban was an attempt by Red Hat to eliminate competition and push for the adoption of Wayland; this action resulted in the deletion of his account, repositories, tickets, and over 140 merge requests associated with the Xorg project.
Textbook conspiracy theory. Now let's hear the other side.
Re: XLibre Xserver: Banned by Red Hat Developer Plans Revival of X11
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
The continuation of X11 is likely not why he was banned.
> The continuation of X11 is likely not why he was banned. Well, according to the article, Weigelt claims he was censored and that the ban was an attempt by Red Hat to eliminate competition and push for the adoption of Wayland; this action resulted in the deletion of his account, repositories, tickets, and over 140 merge requests associated with the Xorg project.
Well, i can claim i am the king of England and it wont make it any more true then he saying he was censored..
He sent a ton of merge requests with crap code without doing any basic testing that broke a bunch of stuff without doing any meaningful work, there was no new features, no bugs fixed, no nothing, he was only changing code style and rearranging stuff without really any basic understanding on why things are the way they are..
the people that need to review his garbage untested MR warned him multiple times and eventually got fed up..
This guy is all bark and no bite.. i doubt anything will come out of this and it is very unlikely that any serious distro will ever package his shit X11 if it ever work..
this guy have a more technical review of his code: