Really nice article. [LWN.net]

Really nice article.

Posted Aug 31, 2005 19:30 UTC (Wed) by josh (guest, #17465)
In reply to: Really nice article. by stef70
Parent article: The state of Linux graphics

XCB is under active development at the moment. One reason you might not notice this on the mailing list is that a number of the primary developers all live in the same area, and often communicate and collaborate offline. Another reason is that many of the developers are also students, and are frequently busy with classes. :) Please don't let that discourage you from participating; just because there isn't a ton of traffic on the mailing list at the moment doesn't mean you won't get any discussion if you post there.

The primary focus at the moment is ensuring that Xlib/XCB passes the X Test Suite, at least to the same extent that plain Xlib does. Once that happens, we plan to make Xlib/XCB the default Xlib.

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Really nice article.

Posted Aug 31, 2005 22:14 UTC (Wed) by stef70 (guest, #14813) [Link]

Nice to see that the project is not dead but where is the mailing list?

The XCB main page (http://xcb.freedesktop.org/wiki/) indicates that the list is hosted at http://www.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xcb but it is not listed there?

The other list mentionned on the wiki is xcb-commit (http://www.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xcb-commit).
That one exists but the archive does not show any activity for almost a month and it that is clearly not a discussion list.

Really nice article.

Posted Sep 1, 2005 8:39 UTC (Thu) by josh (guest, #17465) [Link]

Ah, right. :/

From the topic in #freedesktop on freenode:
lists are intermittently broken, be patient | parts of gabe's RAID array failed -- bugs.fd.o and lists.fd.o are known to be affected (missing attachments in BZ, corrupted mail archives)

xcb is one of the lists affected. This is currently being fixed.