Re: X.org release engineering?

2009-06-10 Thread Simon Thum
jspran...@awlship.com wrote: Trying to build Kdrive and I receiving the following errors: kinput.c: In function ‘KdEnableInput’: kinput.c:340: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘NoticeEventTime’ from incompatible pointer type kinput.c: In function ‘KdQueueEvent’: kinput.c:1675: warning:

Re: X.org release engineering?

2009-06-10 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 03:04:19PM +, jspran...@awlship.com wrote: Trying to build Kdrive and I receiving the following errors: kinput.c: In function ‘KdEnableInput’: kinput.c:340: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘NoticeEventTime’ from incompatible pointer type kinput.c: In function

Re: X.org release engineering?

2009-06-09 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 04:20:00PM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: Security is handled out of band like any other project. We'll release patches for at least the most recent release, probably do a point release for same, and anyone shipping anything older gets to backport. In practise, this didn't

Re: X.org release engineering?

2009-06-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 04:20:00PM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: Security is handled out of band like any other project. We'll release patches for at least the most recent release, probably do a point release for same, and anyone shipping anything older gets to

Re: X.org release engineering?

2009-06-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 07:05:47AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 04:20:00PM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: Security is handled out of band like any other project. We'll release patches for at least the most recent

Re: X.org release engineering?

2009-06-09 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 08:13:03AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Assuming you mean http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXfont/commit/?id=5bf703700ee4a5d6eae20da07cb7a29369667aef the patch is available from git, like all other changes. See earlier part about following git history :) I

X.org release engineering?

2009-06-08 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Where are the release engineering schedule, policies, and steps documented? Note: I have done at least three official X.org component releases (at least three different modules). (Official is defined as: I increased number for release version, did tests, tagged in git, created tarballs, maybe

Re: X.org release engineering?

2009-06-08 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 12:24 -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: - what has the elected board discussed for improving or changing the release engineering processes and scheduling? Just to address this one point, recall that the Board is explicitly not a technical body. It exists to govern the

Re: X.org release engineering?

2009-06-08 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Adam Jacksona...@nwnk.net wrote: Testing is... informal is the polite word.  Nobody's stepped up to do it rigorously, so no one does it. Peter poked me a while ago to work on autotooling xtest. I have it just about working nicely to where you just run make check