On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:41:02 +1300, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'Red Hat folks have long stepped up to manage X.Org Server releases but with Fedora Workstation using Wayland by default and RHEL working that way, they haven't been eager to devote resources to new X.Org Server releases.'
Red Hat’s Adam Jackson agrees <https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/30/x_server_lead_maintainer_declares/> that X.org is sort-of abandonware; there is unlikely to be any major new release in the foreseeable future, but maintenance is still ongoing: “... I'm already on the hook for supporting the xfree86 code until RHEL8 goes EOL anyway, so I'm probably going to be writing and reviewing bugfixes there no matter what I do.” As for complaints that Wayland isn’t quite ready for prime time: The hope then is that publicly announcing the end of the reliable but ancient X.Org server will stimulate greater investment in Wayland, using Xwayland for the huge legacy of existing X11 applications.