Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

[Les Mikesell]

Chris Adams wrote:
> 
>> It's all about interfaces, which are what permit programs to work 
>> together at all.  They are contracts among cooperating programmers that 
>> when changed break everyone else's work and components. Changing an 
>> interface generally sucks, but shipping a freshly changed interface 
>> without publishing the new definition and giving cooperating entities 
>> time to re-do their work to match sucks even more.
> 
> Yeah, because you know, Fedora and X.org keep everything in hiding and
> never let any bits out until they are released.  Also, they never tell
> anyone what they are doing.

Exposing your development work in progress has nothing in common with 
announcing a new stable definition.  When did the latter happen?

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   Les Mikesell
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