[cairo] cairo maintenance status

[darxus at chaosreigns.com]

On 08/04, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> Therefore, of course, I need the DRM backend, which isn't actually
> well-maintained.
> 
> I've already collected lots of patches to get it running (at least
> on dumb framebuffer), but only few have been picked by upstream
> so far.
> 
> If you'd like to help, feel free to have a look at my queue:
> 
> https://github.com/metux/cairo/commits/WIP_drm?page=2

Have you talked to maintainers about what it'll take to get this stuff
merged?  I'd hate to see you do all this work, and then everybody get
frustrated and give up because there wasn't communication from the
beginning about how best to integrate it.