Hi all, Following on from Peter's email about the 1.8/7.6 release process[0], we had a BoF about the same[1] at XDC. Everyone broadly agreed on the substance of Peter's mail, and here are our rough conclusions.
Release process: We're going to aim for a six-month release process, as Peter outlined, with 3 months feature freeze, 2 months bugfix, and the final month release freeze. We're going to start this for 1.8, and hopefully we'll be able to land predictable releases. 7.6: Either Peter or keithp will be the RM: they can arm-wrestle for it. I assume the six-month cycle will start on the day 1.7/7.5 is released (hopefully Monday). Development model: xserver master will be closed to general commits; it will be owned by the RM, or one of their delegates. Again, DO NOT COMMIT DIRECTLY TO XSERVER MASTER. Everyone should have their own xserver trees, and/or one per subsystem (I'll have xserver-xkb and an input tree, I guess Peter will have an input tree, there should be an EXA tree, etc, etc). When you want to push something to master, either send patches to the list, or send a pull request for your tree. ajax has quite unwisely volunteered to run a trivial-patch tree, accumulating random misc. When you send a pull request or patches, it's expected that they've been tested and are working to preserve bisectability, and don't destroy ABI every other commit, so feel free to buffer them up a bit. Judicious use of rebase -i is not wholly discouraged. I know this sounds concerning, but if your merge request just gets forgotten or dropped on the floor, bug us until we make it happen. Future: Around 1.10, we'd like to merge the drivers back into the core so we can start getting a coherent API (well, any API would be a start). We're also working on a much better testing model, with functional testing as well as XTS, so we can exercise modesetting, input functionality, real-world rendering, etc. Phoronix: Yes, we're really trying this time. Gin: Tonic. Cheers, Daniel [0]: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2009-September/002231.html [1]: http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2009/Notes#head-01bab1b9deccfa38847134d06b4234fea4229754
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