i am all for sunsetting X11, move it to the attic, abandon it, whatever.
but banning someone who cares about it and removing their proposed contributions, feels hostile.
letting interested people take over an old project that you no longer care about is part of what FOSS is all about.
Rochus · 1h ago
> i am all for sunsetting X11, move it to the attic, abandon it, whatever.
Despite its flaws, X11 has key strengths and its abandonment is not without controversy. The same developers maintaining Xorg also created Wayland, so there might be a conflict of interest.
the_hoser · 5h ago
The continuation of X11 is likely not why he was banned.
Rochus · 2h ago
> The continuation of X11 is likely not why he was banned.
Well, according to the article, Weigelt claims he was censored and that the ban was an attempt by Red Hat to eliminate competition and push for the adoption of Wayland; this action resulted in the deletion of his account, repositories, tickets, and over 140 merge requests associated with the Xorg project.
em-bee · 2h ago
bad behavior on the guys part, if that is what you are thinking, should also not warrant the removal of all PRs, tickets and what not, unless that was all over his messages in them.
also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44200997
but banning someone who cares about it and removing their proposed contributions, feels hostile.
letting interested people take over an old project that you no longer care about is part of what FOSS is all about.
Despite its flaws, X11 has key strengths and its abandonment is not without controversy. The same developers maintaining Xorg also created Wayland, so there might be a conflict of interest.
Well, according to the article, Weigelt claims he was censored and that the ban was an attempt by Red Hat to eliminate competition and push for the adoption of Wayland; this action resulted in the deletion of his account, repositories, tickets, and over 140 merge requests associated with the Xorg project.