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1. throwa+9[view] [source] 2025-06-06 10:37:14
>>throwa+(OP)
Well-known developer Enrico Weigelt just forked the X server from freedesktop.org after getting the boot [0].

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

[1] https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/commits/xlibre/prepare/

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2. sspiff+o4[view] [source] 2025-06-06 11:30:20
>>throwa+9
Is there any discussion about him being removed from the project on a mailing list or some other channel?

I can't find a "why" in the handful of PRs I opened.

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3. ck45+v5[view] [source] 2025-06-06 11:41:31
>>sspiff+o4
There’s some drama in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1797
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4. cwillu+27[view] [source] 2025-06-06 11:57:51
>>ck45+v5
Wow: “xrandr doesn't work anymore on xorg-git” “I do not think this should be specifically on you, it is not unreasonable to expect that the author of a change tries their change before even submitting it upstream.” does not give a warm fuzzy feeling about the author of the at-fault patch leading a fork.
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5. micw+Vg1[view] [source] 2025-06-06 19:56:05
>>cwillu+27
I think it's not the one to blame who broke this but those who implemented everything all the time without adding any tests. Xorg has quite a large codebase but almost no automated tests.
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6. cwillu+HB1[view] [source] 2025-06-06 22:33:26
>>micw+Vg1
So we agree that the maintainer is at fault: he wanted to change things and not have to thoroughly test his changes by doing the boring work of adding test coverage to the modified area.
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