On 2025-06-23 04:23 PM, E. Liddell via tde-devels wrote:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-Lots-Of-Reverts suggests that unfortunately the real reason the main developer for X11Libre broke away from the main X project is that he isn't a very good coder.
It had nothing to do with him being a bad coder. It had been well known for awhile that the X.org Foundation was holding back development from the X11 project because they have their own conflict of interest in regards to Wayland (and wanted to kill X11). Enrico was the only one who was trying to contribute anything, and he ended up forming his fork (before they reverted anything and banned him) because his merge requests would get ignored. It should also be worth noting that the article you linked is written by Michael Larabel, who is very clearly Wayland-biased and has admitted it.
The changes Enrico made that ended up getting reverted were major code cleanups and security improvements, and they were pushed in master and asked for testing. Was he perfect? No, but it is the master branch and nobody would help him test so he just kept moving on. Despite the supposed "bad code", XLibre works almost flawlessly and it is a community project, not just the guy who got kicked out of FDO. Every issue users have faced have had quick bug fixes and there are major improvements in both functionality and security without hurting the users or developers under X.
There are also some indications of unhinged ideological leanings.
I do not understand how some guys opinions are in any way shape or form relevant unless they are detrimental to his work on software. All that should matter is making good working software. Regardless, Enrico is one guy and there are many people contributing to XLibre. If he ends up in the looney bin by chance, there are many others who will just continue the XLibre project. The important work of starting a fork away from those who think they own it and are trying to kill it has already been finished.