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I'm a bit confused about your post.

Why would Xorg users care about XWayland, or new releases or contributor patches?

Those who contribute to Xorg and feel stuck could step up to maintain it, if they wish. (Don't they do it already?)

If they don't wish to maintain it, maybe their contributions are a waste of everyone's time? (Then again, maybe they get paid to do it, in which case it's their money-misery trade-off to make.)

Over time, Xorg users may indeed need fixes. Then, I'm sure someone will step up.

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> Why would Xorg users care about XWayland

XWayland is Xorg. An Xwayland fix is an Xorg fix. An Xwayland bug is an Xorg bug.

> Those who contribute to Xorg and feel stuck could step up to maintain it, if they wish. (Don't they do it already?)

No one maintains Xorg anymore, so there is no one to review patches, merge and roll new releases with them.

There's a huge difference between wanting to fix a bit and becoming an upstream maintainer.

The maintainers left for good reason, and no one wants to be stuck with that turd.

> Then, I'm sure someone will step up.

It is not "over time", it is now or never.

Welp, as a user of Xorg I'm fine with what I have. You seem to be playing on both senses of Xwayland both being Xorg and not being Xorg, but Xwayland will continue to be irrelevant to me.

You say "now or never" but I've no idea what you're talking about. Your reply makes zero sense. If there's any trouble in the future, I'm sure someone will step up, as I said.

You have no idea what I am talking about because you don't engage with upstream Xorg and seem stuck in a "works on my machine" fallacy.

Your attitude to the problem is a big contributor to Xorg upstreams demise.

The biggest is, of course, that none of the maintainers wanted to deal with that dumpster fire anymore and jumped ship, and no one in the know is dumb enough to pick up the torch. But, a delusioned userbase is very unhelpful in recruiting new blood.

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