Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 10th Jun 2008 22:00 UTC, submitted by capnix
Phoronix has up an article looking at the release of X Server 1.4.1. This maintenance release for X.Org, which many open-source operating systems depend upon for living in a graphically-rich world, is coming more than 200 days late and it doesn't even clear the BugZilla release blocker bug. According to Phoronix, there are more problems for X.org than just this one.
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[q]When its counted in days not months or years then its not bad. you can't say six and half month and it sound late anymore when everything seems to go past its deadline KDE; OS X; and my personal favorite Vista.[/]
What the complaining is about isn't the lateness; most people can handle a bit of lateness. The issue is the fact that it was shipped 200 days late and the still has a mountain of show stoppers/blockers. I'm sorry, but that is completely unacceptable. Why even have th classification of 'blocker' when its not even going to be taken seriously.
What annoys me the most is the number of distributions who contribute nothing back to address bugs that exista accross all platforms. Each distribution only seems concerned about their 'neck of the woods' which ends up leaving massive chunk of code in the middle with bugs that never get addressed, because it doesn't fit into any of the distribution camp (the platform independent code).
What there need to be is for the established vendors to get together and create a Xorg consortium where people work on all the code, not just the code relating to their neck of the woods. Unless the 'neglected code' gets a make over, these kinds of issues will continue creeping to the forefront of an already problematic release process.
Edited 2008-06-11 07:21 UTC