Everyone on #xorg-devel has seen me harassing people about our current stats with bugs. If anyone with knowledge of the X codebase felt like coming in and doing a bunch of really painful, unrewarding, triage work, it'd be massively appreciated. That NEW line should really continue plummeting down! On that note, I'd like to publicly big up Erik Andren in particular, for doing a ton of awesome triage work so far to help us get that graph down, and help beat our Bugzilla into something usable that helps us, rather than its current awfulness.

Joe muses about Xlib and connection aborts. Two things:

Yes, libX11 is going away. It's unfixably broken (not only is the implementation utterly horrendous, but the concept is exactly what toolkits don't want), and we can't change existing behaviours because libX11 is just one of those API/ABIs you cannot break.

Yes, the ability to recover from connection aborts is essential. D-BUS is broken in the exact same way, yet some people feel inclined to defend it (e.g. mandating reboots when either of the D-BUS daemon, or libdbus, are upgraded; advocating segfaults in client applications when the bus dies as the right thing to do?!?). I don't think either behaviour is in the least bit sensible, and it would be really keen if both could be fixed (by using XCB in toolkits for the former, by fixing libdbus to be less obnoxious for the latter).