Intel and XMir

Posted Oct 1, 2013 13:10 UTC (Tue) by JanC_ (guest, #34940)
In reply to: Intel and XMir by robclark
Parent article: Intel and XMir

My point here is that it is codepaths that you cannot even compile test without a different distro setup.

Many successful upstream projects also drop backends which they cannot maintain, fwiw.

What if you consider the Canonical employees as part of upstream, as maintainers (both development & QA) for that part of the code? It's not like Linus, the Linux Foundation, or any of the other linux developers have hardware to compile & test all linux architectures, drivers & features for example...

Of course, if at some point in time Mir-related problems start to accumulate and nobody fixes them (if it becomes unmaintained), then you should drop support for it.