Hi, Ian.
Ian Romanick wrote:
Since our CVS situation has changed, the policy has also changed. The docs, unfortunately, have not. As near as I can tell, the situation is as follows:
- Client-side driver development happens in the Mesa CVS trunk. Stable code lives in a branch.
- DRM driver development happens in the DRI CVS trunk. Stable code lives in the kernel tree.
- Any code not covered by the previous two rules follows whatever the X.org policy is.
Based on that, how does the currently shipping kernel (2.6.8.1 still, right?) fare?
Ok, fair enough.
The via drm is AFAIK not in the kernel due to the security issues. And also the via-specific features has undergone some development lately, and that is what our users are after. I guess creating a reasonably stable "via-stable" branch in drm would be an option?
How do we make sure the drm code that ends up in the currently shipping kernel is reasonably stable?
There are basically 3 classes of users. The third group are the people in the middle. They want the latest stable updates. I think this is the largest group, and it is also the group that getting the short-end of things right now. We've had discussions about "those people" in the past, but we've never come to any firm conclusions. I've always liked the idea of, once a month, picking the "known best" nightly snapshot and marking it as the stable build. The only problem is that requires a certain amount of manpower, and nobody has had / taken the time.
I understand. This is an idea also proposed on the unichrome lists, and we mostly have users of this third category. However it has a tendency to not help developers find bugs, since a "third category" user would try the "last known good" release instead of reporting a bug.
Also, should the last known good releases be the basis of what's going into the shipping kernel?
What about having a "release" branch that merges in trunk code that is known as reasonably stable?
Regards Thomas
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