[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for
this link. ]
“Many messages have been accumulating about this matter in this
mailing list thread, but here’s the summary. While a six month
release cycle right now is good for the X Server, and its current
schedule of new versions that would be out in March / September
just in time for the seasons of Linux distribution refreshes, this
may not work in the future. Once the input/video drivers are merged
back into the X Server, some developers are calling for a three
month release cycle of the X Server.“Moving the X.Org drivers back into the X Server — even though
they were merged out of the X Server a few years back — is wanted
so that invasive API/ABI changes can be carried out without causing
hell on the user. Lots of dead, legacy code could be deleted from
both the drivers and the X Server, without making it messy on
distribution maintainers and end-users with having certain version
requirements for the different components with each X Server
release. Instead, users would just need to grab the latest X
Server, which would include the compatible drivers and need not
worry about any API/ABI breakage. Having the drivers in the X
Server would also cause more users to test out the latest X Server
development code, which isn’t happening too frequently right
now.”