Following is the census of 1.10 window for all X infrastructure - raw numbers here. I did it in a similar way as the previous version. Worth to mention that there’s almost no relation between the cycles of development from each of the components listed below, which can lead to some misunderstanding. Anyway, still a nice indicative to see and evaluate how the free desktop community behaved.
Numbers for X implementation (xserver, proto, lib and xcb repositories):
I am a candidate for the elections 2011 of the board of directors :) Following are my answers based on the questionnaire formulated by the members. You can check other candidates answers here.
1) In the last year, the membership gained a lot more insight in the activities of the board. What is your opinion on this new-gained transparency? Do you** see options for improvement?**
What happened in the recent past when people started to demand logs and open meetings from X.Org was great and should be always supported. The board reacted relatively quickly which was nice also. As a open organization, the Foundation has to work to improve more this, specially regarding the financial aspects which is being subject of discussions lately.
Moikka.
If you follow here [0] you will see a set of Debian packages that Graphics team at Nokia are continuously working to deploy a X11 implementation for MeeGo-Harmattan, where we target embedded systems only. Feel free to use it!
At this point, we are very proud of ourselves because 99% of the content on these repositories are based on the ones at X main-stream of development. IWO we are directly fetching the X code-base from freedesktop.org. More important, we are shaping freedesktop implementation for embedded devices. So at this moment, we are pretty much aligned with X version 1.9.2, plus a few of other commits from master branch; the rest of components, like client side libraries, are mostly what we have on freedesktop master also.
Topic’s name is a funny (and friendly) devotion to GNOME Census. So let’s take a look at some numbers from the time Xorg 1.9 was in development - raw data is here.
Would be unfair to measure only the work that happened e.g. in X server or in the drivers being developed and come up with the statistics about “who developed X”. X and X development community are quite extensive and don’t concern only “graphics” related, i.e., pixel information that appears on your display screen. This is a very common mistake.
That’s what I’m using for MeeGo now. Autoconf parameters, theeere we go:
–disable-static –disable-aiglx –disable-config-dbus –disable-config-hal –disable-dbe –disable-dga –disable-dpms –disable-dri –disable-glx –disable-glx-tls –disable-int10-module –disable-ipv6 –disable-screensaver –disable-secure-rpc –disable-tcp-transport –disable-vbe –disable-vgahw –disable-xdm-auth-1 –disable-xinerama –disable-xwin –disable-xaa –disable-xace –disable-xdmcp –disable-xf86vidmode –disable-xfree86-utils –disable-xnest –disable-xvmc –disable-libdrm –enable-config-udev –enable-dri2 –enable-null-root-cursor –enable-record –enable-unit-tests –enable-visibility –enable-xorg –with-sha1=libsha1
PS: stop use kdrive hardware servers (Xfbdev and variants). They are dead!
Last week I’ve been in Brazil at 11th International Free Software Forum (FISL) talking about Linux Graphics for Small Devices*. I tried to cover a bit of everything that I learned in the world I’ve been immersed in some near past - I guess there aren’t many news for freedesktopers though. Anyway, everyone is very welcome to give any kind of feedback and comment on it. Just follow here.
*actually, two nights in Porto Alegre and two nights in Curitiba. Was great to see most of my friends!
