xorg ports roadmap?

[vehemens]

On Thursday 26 November 2009 07:45:14 Robert Noland wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 02:34 -0800, vehemens wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 November 2009 15:14:30 Mark Linimon wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:20:22AM -0800, vehemens wrote:
> > > > I don't belive that there any plans, which is why BSD will be stuck
> > > > using an dated x11 release.
> > >
> > > portmgr had asked that no large changes be committed during the 8.0 QA
> > > process.  I can't think of too many other changes that would be "larger
> > > changes".
> >
> > So could you enlighten us with the plan and schedule for updating the x11
> > ports once the freeze is lifted?
>
> Whatever plan there is, is mine... I do intend to make the updates to at
> least 7.5 base set before too much longer, however as I have stated
> there are issues for various chips that need resolving.  I don't have a
> solution that I am happy with for either intel or nouveau right now,
> radeon will just work.  As was also mentiioned... I get lots of grief
> when updates are made, which doesn't help my motivation for the massive
> amount of work required to get this done.  The effort requires not only
> updating the main chip drivers, but lots of obscure drivers that have 3
> users, as well as a full pointyhat run and generally fixing lots of
> non-xorg ports with the new infrastructure.

If your having so many problems with these updates, why not just split ports 
into current and stable branches?