That's the fork where the primary cause was to be "anti-woke", right? Honestly it seemed like it was just because that one guy was a little unbalanced, and he happened to be channeling that energy into an X server fork.

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nofriend 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

no the primary cause was that the main xorg project wasn't accepting the devs patches any more.

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theamk 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

... because this dev's patches broke master, multiple times.

I feel this is an important detail to keep in mind while choosing a fork.

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nofriend 5 days ago | parent [-]

which mattered because everyone pulls from master, because xorg stopped doing proper releases. it's certainly something to bear in mind if you intend to run xlibre though.

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theamk 4 days ago | parent [-]

I don't think "everyone" pulls from master - "everyone" run the distributions, and they always pin to the specific git commits. Only people who run xorg master are the ones who want bleeding edge, and those would be using it no matter release or not.

And it's not like metux will suddenly become more careful just because he does not have to worry about other anymore. If anything, I expect there to be much faster changes and much more breaking things... Here is a great quote [0]

> @metux that you've had to fix this bug twice (!1844 (merged), !1845 (merged)) shows a lack of attention and care. This was a known regression, with clear reproduction steps, and at first glance, it does not look like you tested your PR at all.

> And that goes in general; I really haven't seen the level of care and attention I would expect to see in these patches; several of them had obvious buffer overflow issues that would have easily been caught if tested.

[0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1797#no...

	▲	nofriend 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not even trying to say they shouldn't have kicked him out, just that it had nothing to do with wokeness, and more to do with philosophy of how the project should be run.

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asveikau 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

And he blamed wokeness.

	▲	nofriend 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		sure, he's a bit of a kook, but wokeness itself is really incidental to the whole thing.

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cassepipe 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

On the github, he points to this document:

https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/blob/master/HISTORY.md

Doesn't mention "woke" but the style is reminiscent to me from grandiosity/paranoia issues

	▲	thesuitonym 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		From the README: ``It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies.'' and ``Together we'll make X great again!'' These are both phrases used by people who are anti-woke (I guess asleep would be the proper term).