2014-08-18 14:57 GMT+03:00 Giulio Camuffo <giuliocamu...@gmail.com>:
> 2014-08-18 14:35 GMT+03:00 Pekka Paalanen <ppaala...@gmail.com>:
>> 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 had these patches which I'd like to see going in:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2013-December/012589.html
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2013-December/012590.html
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2013-December/012591.html

Sorry, i forgot. Discard the last one, as per my reply to it.

>
> I can rebase them on top of current master, if we like them.
>
> --
> Giulio
>
>>
>> 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
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