They are essentially doing the same as KDE, whose statement was linked in the article.
KDE
For now, the Plasma X11 session remains in maintenance mode. That means critical issues—like login failures or major regressions—will still be addressed. However, minor bugs are unlikely to get fixes unless funded, and new X11-specific features are off the table entirely.
VS
Gnome
First things first: Xorg isn’t being abandoned outright. It remains maintained and is receiving necessary security patches and bug fixes. However, active development has effectively halted, with most of its original contributors now focused on Wayland.
Edit - added Gnome quote effectively saying the same thing.
Even here the KDE communication is better on details. the gnome quote is less crisp on what it means by “active development” where as KDE precisely defines what will and will not be supported
Odds are they’re doing the same thing only in theory. In practice, the picture changes - typically the KDE devs are far more willing to maintain old and marginal features and/or support benefiting only a small chunk of the userbase. While the GNOME devs are way more likely to ditch it, babble something about their design vision, then try to convince the user “ackshyually you don’t need it”.
(A major exception is perhaps accessibility, mentioned in the text. It isn’t just the Wayland devs worried about it, but also the KDE and GNOME devs. In this regard props to all three.)
They are essentially doing the same as KDE, whose statement was linked in the article.
KDE
VS
Gnome
Edit - added Gnome quote effectively saying the same thing.
Even here the KDE communication is better on details. the gnome quote is less crisp on what it means by “active development” where as KDE precisely defines what will and will not be supported
That and if you go on the gnome forums, their attitude IMO seems openly hostile to… almost everything and everyone.
Odds are they’re doing the same thing only in theory. In practice, the picture changes - typically the KDE devs are far more willing to maintain old and marginal features and/or support benefiting only a small chunk of the userbase. While the GNOME devs are way more likely to ditch it, babble something about their design vision, then try to convince the user “ackshyually you don’t need it”.
(A major exception is perhaps accessibility, mentioned in the text. It isn’t just the Wayland devs worried about it, but also the KDE and GNOME devs. In this regard props to all three.)