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XFree86 core team disbands
XFree86 core team leader David Dawes has sent out a
message stating that the core team has voted to disband itself. "I believe that this is an acknowlegement that the core team was no longer
representative of the active, experienced and skilled XFree86 developers,
or a place where technical discussion happens." What comes next is
not clear at this point; XFree86 development will probably continue as
always, however.
(As seen on Slashdot).
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XFree86 core team disbands Posted Dec 31, 2003 18:14 UTC (Wed) by arcticwolf (guest, #8341) [Link] Does this mean that there is a chance that Xfree86 and Xouvert will join again?
XFree86 core team disbands Posted Dec 31, 2003 20:49 UTC (Wed) by vblum (subscriber, #1151) [Link] To those who read tea leaves better than myself, is this finally a result of Keith Packard's X shakeup?XFree is an invaluable piece of infrastructure, but even to this day a bit scary to use in my eyes. Hopefully the structural change above will be for the better, not for the worse. On a related note: Does lwn cover the "Xouvert Traffic" publication? I just discovered that while browsing around, and it seems a worthwhile item to track. I couldn't find anything in the lwn archives (also because lwn's search function insisted that I was not specifying a search term ...)
XFree86 core team disbands Posted Jan 1, 2004 1:07 UTC (Thu) by josh_stern (guest, #4868) [Link] As I understand it, the core team was a kind of board of governorsfor XFree86, and the announcement means that the XFree86 project is moving to a different governance structure. Curious that the announcement didn't say anything about what that structure would be. Perhaps the developers simply vote on a release manager for each release?
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