Considering the overwhelmingly negative feedback, I am hereby withdrawing this Change proposal.
The reasoning is twofold:
- I have always argued that Changes that are overwhelmingly rejected by the community should not be approved by FESCo. So it would be very hypocritical if I attempted to push this through over the almost entirely negative feedback. I stand by my positions and also apply them to myself.
- At this point, I believe that this has no chance of being approved by FESCo for Fedora 43, so I do not want to waste everyone’s time by continuing this discussion that is not leading anywhere.
There’s just no reason to do this work. Even if you ignore the fork’s controversial maintainer, and just favor the fact that it’s maintained at all (which is what the proposal’s author is suggesting) just… Why?
X11 is basically over at this point, why throw a last minute wrench into the existing, working Xorg infrastructure?
When we dropped XFree86 back in the day there were license issues, packaging issues and a real alternative didn’t exist - all justifying the effort to switch. None of these are a problem today.