Roadmap 2012

[Alan Grimes]

Norman Feske wrote:

> Wayland is independent from xorg. However, it relies on the GPU driver
> normally found in the Linux kernel as well as the user-level bindings
> found in libdrm. Fortunately, we have already ported (most of) these
> parts for Intel GPUs to Genode. See:

I have exactly one concern about Wayland.

There is a specific developer who has been busily breaking the keyboard 
and mouse drivers on Xorg. The keyboard and mouse drivers used to be the 
most reliable drivers on my computer, after this specific intel employee 
started getting involved and making the keyboard and mouse "hot 
pluggable", Xorg normally loads with NO KEYBOARD OR MOUSE SUPPORT AT 
ALL!!! I either have to cold-boot the computer or I have to ssh into it 
from somewhere else to kick it back to console mode. I forgot his name, 
it is rather complex with accent characters. The solution is to add more 
lines to xorg.conf to force the driver to behave as it used to. My 
xorg.conf now reads like a mantric chant of commands to disable 
hot-plugging.

This person is a man that I want lifetime banned from the open source 
movement for reason of the quantity of my time he has wasted and the 
amount of stress and aggrivation he has dealt me. =( This grade-A 
asshole is also a prominent developer in the Wayland project therefore I 
have very little hope that Wayland will ever be either reliable or 
usable. =(

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