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作者: NetDemon [netdemon]

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In the Spirit of Open: No More Core
[30 December 2003]
The XFree86 core team has voted to disband itself, effective 31 December 2003 in what is basically a minor internal restructuring, similiar in both spirit and action to last January when the devel list was opened up to the whole XFree86 community instead of as previously just XFree86 developers.

This dissolution made allot of sense as the core team was supposed to be distillation of the best and brightest that XFree86 development had to offer. In reality, this vibrancy required constant checking, pruning and monitoring and as XFree86 is a volunteer organisation of all this extra burden was taking away precious development time to perform worthless bureaucratic tasks.

Happily, the vast majority of core team members saw that the important architectural discussions were happening out there on the devel list and not behind closed doors on core, and so with a gift for the obvious, they voted to disband.

It is possible though, that Task Forces, ad hoc committees, will be setup in the future to fulfill certain goals, issues and technical problems that inevitably spring forth. There is precedent for such Task Forces in XFree86, as during the years of 1997-1999 there was one called a Design Team that was made up of many non-core technical personnel to create the all-important 4.0 modular architecture.

In the meantime, The XFree86 Project and its still very active and cutting-edge developers are doing what they do best: developing, discussing and hanging out on the development list all for the purpose of fielding questions and getting ready for our 4.4 Release. While you are in the area, why don't you join them?

Comments, concerns, sighs and cheers about the dissolution can be made on Forum at XFree86 dot org; registration is not necessary. Hope to see you there.
http://www.XFree86.org/

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