My Three Cents

Although I don't see much progress with this project lately, those
complaining about it must realize that Mark's, Andrew's, Phil's and
any other developers who are participating choose to volunteer their
time to work on it, and they have every right to choose if they want
to spend their time on it.

A lot of vitality came from people interested in the eye candy Y
initially made available, but then Keith's Kdrive server and later
X.Org 6.8 introduced support for translucency on a platform that
everyone had and used. That most certainly helped cause the current
incubation of Y.

There's also the fact that if people want something done, the open
source philosophy is: do it yourself. I'm very much aware that many
complainees don't have the technical skill or whatever, but the
solution then if they want to help is to bring interested developers
_here_.

And I don't ever want to see a complainee quote "being too busy" as a
reason they aren't helping themselves. Because *real* developers are
allowed to be busy too.