About 2 years ago, I started work on the build script / git repo that is now this XQuartz repo. 2.7.x and earlier used some Apple Internal build scripts plus some hacked up scripts I made plus the old Package Maker.app. The major hurdle for someone else taking over was build / distribution. In 2016, I pushed out 2.7.11 expecting it to be the last version for a long time unless someone else could step up. Since then (ie: the past ~8 years), I've been putting in minimal effort on my own time to just push out security fixes as needed. For 2011-2012, I continued to spend about 15% time working on things related to XQuartz at Apple, but they were mainly reacting to changes in the OS and bumping versions for security vulnerabilities. That was esentially done with OS X Lion and XQuartz 2.7.0 (2011). ![]() The goal was to get it to a state where we felt comfortable handing it off as a community project. In 2009, I was hired full time and continued to work on XQuartz about 25% of my time. 2007 through early 2009, I was working on this as an intern at Apple.
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