[sprash]

What is the process to become a release manager for X11 without forking it? I assume you can't just walk in there and say "I'll do that".

[tinus_hn]

I assume it starts with showing you’re up to it by putting in the work. You don’t need to be the release manager to contribute patches.

[codewiz]

But who will review your patches, if all the core devs have already moved on to Wayland?

[tinus_hn]

Who will give you maintainership?

[iampivot]

It's open source, you can provide your own distribution of it.

[bombcar]

You fork it and your fork becomes the mainly used one is how it normally happens.

[sergeykish]

Who would risk stability? And what is the issue with forking? ffmpeg/libav, openssl/libressl managed fine. No fork is the symptom.

[sprash]

The other forks you are mentioning are a completely different problem because there were inherent philosophical differences among developers.

X11 just needs "a release" so that package maintainers and distros can push updates. If you fork it you only make things worse.

[sergeykish]

Just needs a release that could contain bugs, could contain exploits. And current maintainers are not going to risk? I'm typing on X11 system, and it works, proving previous maintainers got it right. I am fine if active developers make a fork, prove its worth, some distributions adopting it, finally fork merged into base with new leadership.