The Debian X Strike Force TODO List

Something Vaguely Like A Lenny Roadmap

For the XSF, the Etch release cycle involved adapting and rebuilding our infrastructure surrounding XFree86 to deal not only the initial changes made by X.Org, but also for the massive reorganization required to ship future releases. We now have this infrastructure in place, and we need to think about ways to improve it. The road ahead should attempt to alleviate our largest burdens.

One of the biggest problems we've faced is that a vast amount of our work involves managing Debian-specific things. We have managed to alleviate this somewhat by using a common build system and patching system, which has helped tremendously, but we are still carrying all this around when we shouldn't. By pushing this logic in to the server, we lighten our burden by distributing it amongst the community, bring ourselves in line with what people expect out of Xorg in a Linux distribution, and help build goodwill both with the community at large and upstream. Similarly, by pushing our packaging burden in to common Debian packages, we do much the same. Here are a list of tasks to help achieve this.

Other Ideas