Hi all, in the release announcement of 1.5.0[1] it was said that the alpha release towards 1.6 should come out mid-August. That time is now, so how about we target Friday, Aug 22nd (European time)?
I know the review process has been lagging behind badly, and we probably won't see e.g. IVI-shell merged for 1.6, but I try to do what I can. What major features have been forgotten on the mailing list unmerged, that you would like to see included in 1.6? I can't promise anything, and I know at least none of my new features (Presentation extension, new repaint scheduling algorithm, repaint timeline logging, DRM universal planes & nuclear pageflip support, linux_dmabuf protocol sketch, and some smaller things) brewing in my personal 'next' branch will not make it. Obviously a stable first version of xdg_shell would be great to see in 1.6, but we shall see if we can beat it into shape in time. When I reviewed the XML spec not long ago, it was close but not ready in my opinion. When xdg_shell does stabilize, we will move xdg_shell.xml into Wayland repository and it will be installed, but all build-time users of it must generate their own wrappers with wayland-scanner or equivalent. This means that libwayland-client will not contain any xdg_shell symbols or headers pre-generated. I asked Kristian and he was ok with this plan, and I have also talked a little on #wayland-devel, that maybe this would be a good idea. If this turns out a bad idea, we can always fix it later. Doing it the other way around would be near impossible. Should we make libinput the default for 1.6, so that in 1.7 we can remove the old input code, or is libinput API still too much in flux? Also, it was said that 1.5.1 should have come out in "a few weeks" and it has been 3 months now. I will try and check the patches already in 'master' of both Wayland and Weston and pick them to the 1.5 branches, but if you know of patches that should be in stable, especially ones without review or not in 'master', let me know and I try do something. My selection, especially for Wayland, will probably be very conservative, though, as my priority is 1.6. Thanks, pq [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2014-May/014955.html _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel