X11 Team

1.  Project Description

The X11 team manages the X implementations and drivers and base-level accessories in Portage. This includes X.Org, XFree86, drivers and kernel modules such as ati-drivers, nvidia-kernel, nvidia-glx and xfree-drm as well as other core libraries and accessories.

2.  Project Goals

The team aims to support X implementations and driver or accessory add-ons to the core. Increasing the modularity of monolithic builds and making configuration automatic or easier are part of its current work.

3.  Developers

All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org.

4.  Resources

Resources offered by the x11 project are:

• X Maintenance Guide
• Libxcb 1.4 Upgrade Guide
• Xorg Server 1.6 Upgrade Guide
• Xorg Server 1.5 Upgrade Guide
• Migrating to Modular X HOWTO
• Porting to Modular X HOWTO
• Modular X todo items
• Migration guide explaining the process needed for moving from ATI binary to ATI OS drivers

5.  Want to help?

If you want to get involved with improving Gentoo's X experience, we'd like to hear from you! The main thing you'll want to do is be active on Gentoo's Bugzilla. Also please join desktop project members in #gentoo-desktop on irc.freenode.net.

If you are interested in fixing various bugs and don't know which ones we care about, then take a look at the X11 team buglist.

We are also looking for Herd Testers. If you are interested in becoming a regular X11 contributor you should read the document and accomodate yourself with it :].