xorg ports roadmap?

[b. f.]

On 11/25/09, vehemens <vehemens at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Monday 09 November 2009 16:18:30 b. f. wrote:
>> What plans are there, if any, for an xorg update in Ports after 8.0 is
>> released?  What versions of the key xorg ports will be included in
>> such an update?  Are there any patches available, or a repository with
>> public access, as in the past?  Is rnoland@ the only person working on
>> this?
>
> I don't belive that there any plans, which is why BSD will be stuck using an
> dated x11 release.
>
>

Let's be patient a while longer.  8.0 is just coming out, and in a
short time there will be an opportunity to make changes more freely in
Ports.  Remember that Robert is the only committer who is working on
this (and in his spare time), and that last time he and Florent were
criticized for moving too quickly in updating Xorg.  It's not easy to
get Xorg to work well on the wide range of hardware that it needs to
support, and Xorg has been undergoing some changes, some of which have
been made by upstream developers who are preoccupied with Linux.

FreeBSD would do well to try to attract more developers to work on
Xorg support, and to look at what changes NetBSD and OpenBSD have made
for their in-tree Xorg.

b.