A proposal has been laid out for a new X.Org Server “main” Git branch to house their development going forward and cleaning up the development lapses over the past few years. Ultimately the hope is for having a new cleaned-up X.Org Server and XWayland Git branch for shipping new releases in 2026.
Alan Coopersmith of Oracle laid out the proposal today for a new main branch of the X.Org Server Git repository. The main emphasis is on cleaning up the Git state that became cluttered the past few years when now-XLibre developer Enrico Weigelt was making a lot of changes to the codebase that then ended up with a lot of that code being later reverted. Discussions on IRC determined that it may be easier to start over from an early 2024 snapshot of the X.Org Git state and then work from there in weeding out commits that actually remain present day without being reverted.
I think XLibre, Phoenix, and Wayback woke them up.
You missed the part where the reason why they are doing this is because the person who started XLibre had previously committed so much bad code to XOrg that needed to be rolled back that the git history is now a mess that is hindering forward progress. The goal of the new release is to start over from 2024 and cherry-pick the commits they want to keep in order to clean the history up.
oh boy. What a distinction, to have so many bad commits reverted that you derail a major project for months cleaning up after you.
did they grant this person commit access before? not sure how so many weird commits got merged when there should’ve been code reviews and all…