On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Matt Turner <matts...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Keith Packard <kei...@keithp.com> wrote: >> What do others think about merging reviewed minor cleanups that don't >> affect API or ABI at this point? Is it OK? Should we pend these until >> the 1.10 merge window opens? > > I'd say it's fine. But in keeping with our new tradition of following > the kernel development model, I ask What Would Linus Do?
That's easy. Linus would have a pile of minions, er, subsystem maintainers, and an even larger pile of people interested in testing random git trees posted all over the place. I'd love to know what the X community can do to encourage the same to happen here, but it seems like every discussion that might help has gone down in flames. I don't feel strongly about whether my cleanup patches should or should not be merged. I'd like them to be, so I don't have to carry them locally as I continue making bigger changes, but I'm pretty good at using git and it won't hurt me to hold on to them for three months. Tiago's questions are more important, in my opinion: Should we branch 1.9 and leave master open for development, and should we choose a shorter freeze period for 1.10? I guess we're trying to get people to test the RCs, and that's a little more likely if that code is on master rather than on a release branch. Three months does feel like a long time to stall development on master, though, given how attention-starved this code already is. I'd prefer a three-month total release cycle, assuming a willing release manager. Perhaps we need an xserver-next tree, like linux-next[1]: a tree for integration-testing different developers' work that is not tied to the server's release cycle. Unlike Linux, xserver doesn't have a strong notion of "subsystem maintainers", so I envision letting anyone offer a topic branch for integration testing. Somebody would have to volunteer to manage the tree though, and that won't be me. :-) Jamey [1] http://linux.f-seidel.de/linux-next/ or http://linux.f-seidel.de/linux-next/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Linux-next.Linux-next _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel