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X.Org Server's "Master" Branch Now Closed With Cleaned Up State On "Main"

([X.Org] 13 Minutes Ago xorg-server)


This Valentine's Day there is a lot of red on the screen for the X.Org Server with the code delta as a result of renaming of their main Git development branch and in the process selectively dropping questionable patches to the prior "master" codebase.

The effort noted in January of [1]X.Org Server May Create A New Selective Git Branch With Hopes Of A New Release This Year has now been realized. As of a short time ago today, the "master" Git branch is ended with new X.Org Server development now on "main" and in the process starting off from a starting point of 2024 and then laying on the acceptable patches that were queued up over the past two years. See that aforelinked article for more details.

[2]This patch has marked X.Org Server's "master" branch as now closed and superseded by the main branch.

The X.Org Server main Git branch can be viewed [3]here for those interested. That branch is now in a cleaned-up state without many of the patches accumulated that were deemed questionable and then later reverted.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-Main-Repo

[2] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?__goaway_challenge=meta-refresh&__goaway_id=c8d9fbd9caa9a8c8751a24fb42d02f17&id=0da4d2480066fb2c783325e7594902aacc23413e

[3] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/log/?h=main


The Poet Whose Badness Saved His Life
The most important poet in the seventeenth century was George
Wither. Alexander Pope called him "wretched Wither" and Dryden said of his
verse that "if they rhymed and rattled all was well".
In our own time, "The Dictionary of National Biography" notes that his
work "is mainly remarkable for its mass, fluidity and flatness. It usually
lacks any genuine literary quality and often sinks into imbecile doggerel".
High praise, indeed, and it may tempt you to savour a typically
rewarding stanza: It is taken from "I loved a lass" and is concerned with
the higher emotions.
She would me "Honey" call,
She'd -- O she'd kiss me too.
But now alas! She's left me
Falero, lero, loo.
Among other details of his mistress which he chose to immortalize
was her prudent choice of footwear.
The fives did fit her shoe.
In 1639 the great poet's life was endangered after his capture by
the Royalists during the English Civil War. When Sir John Denham, the
Royalist poet, heard of Wither's imminent execution, he went to the King and
begged that his life be spared. When asked his reason, Sir John replied,
"Because that so long as Wither lived, Denham would not be accounted the
worst poet in England."
-- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"