On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 12:13:12 +0200 Pekka Paalanen <ppaala...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 10:05:47 -0600 > Derek Foreman <derek.foreman.sams...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 1/18/19 4:20 PM, Derek Foreman wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > It's been quite some time since our last weston release, and there's > > > been some discussion of getting the next one out in the January to March > > > timeframe (this would be the last release to have an autotools build, > > > btw). > > > > > > Does anyone have objections to an early February freeze and a March > > > release? Anyone with large series near completion? > > > > > > Also, I'd like to float the idea of removing the fbdev backend for this > > > release (or the next). The bulk of the interesting features target the > > > drm backend, and it feels like fbdev can sometimes be a bit of a pain to > > > update when changes are required elsewhere. Any strong opinions either > > > way? > > > > Ok, I've heard no complaints, and we really are overdue... > > > > There's been some reasonable pushback against dropping fbdev > > immediately, so let's leave that in for this release. > > > > As to the release schedule, maybe: > > February 1, Alpha > > February 15, Beta > > March 1, RC1 > > March 8 as a first potential final release date. > > > > Is this too soon to enter freeze? It's not a lot of warning. > > > > Wayland has had enough changes that I think another joint release makes > > sense. > > Hi, > > here are my picks from the pending reviews. I don't mean that we should > wait on them unless noted explicitly below. > > Wayland: > > I reviewed https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/49379/ and it needs > work. > > https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/38564/ is probably something I > should look into to have in the alpha. That one landed. > > Weston: > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/merge_requests/66 is > something I'd like to land, but it needs a small touch. > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/merge_requests/62 is > probably important enough, that I'd be willing to postpone the release > until we get that in. Looks like it is very close. > > Since Meson is a new thing, > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/merge_requests/85 would > probably be nice to decide on. > > Getting NEWS files would be cool too. This was just the first attempt > that got useful feedback but I never had the time to take it further: > https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/16218/ > I took a look at the Weston changes since 5.0.0 release: - the exported symbols from weston executable have changed, backwards incompatible, but this probably shouldn't count against libweston major - struct weston_head gained a new member - struct weston_compositor gained new members - struct weston_surface gained a new member I guess these are reasons enough to bump the major to 6, right? Would have been interesting to release a 5.1.0, too bad. :-) Thanks, pq
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