[Xorg] idea for xorg development

[Alan Coopersmith]

David P. Wagoner wrote:
> Well i was searching through the mailing lists and was really curious 
> about the direction that xorg was headed and have had some trouble 
> finding out about this and I had an idea. I think a really good feature 
> to add to xorg would be a roadmap. While there doesn't have to be 
> specific dates it might be nice to see something of a rough roadmap and 
> maybe even which people are specifically incharge of which things. This 
> would help potential new developers see what direction xorg is headed 
> and start to work on some of those features and contact anyone which 
> can help get them started. What does everyone think?

We should probably start putting something like this in the wiki.

The major projects I'm aware of that are likely to make the next release
are (and the people I think are working on them, though certainly
incomplete and possibly inaccurate):

   - New Extensions:  Xfixes, Damage, Xevie, Composite
	(Keith Packard, Stuart Krietman, Deron Johnson)
   - Autotool build support (Keith Packard, Daniel Stone, and several others)
   - Distributed Multi-Head X (DMX) (Kevin Martin and others)
   - New unified XKB database (Ivan Pascal & Sergey V. Udaltsov)

I know Roland Mainz has also been working on Xprint improvements,
and a number of people (including me) have been working on bug fixes,
though there are many unclaimed bugs still open in bugzilla.

One project I know many people want to see, but which I don't
know of anyone working on, is converting all the docs to SGML or XML.
There's tools to do much of the heavy lifting, but many eyeballs to
proofread would be helpful, and in-depth technical knowledge is not
a pre-requisite, but reading all those docs might help some sink in
for developers wanting to get more involved.

One of these days I've also got a whole bunch of changes to merge in
from Sun's X sources to sprinkle gettext() and other i18n bits
through various clients source which will then open up opportunities
to help translate messages to various languages.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering