Re: wayland-protocols scope and governance

2019-02-19 Thread Roman Gilg
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 5:50 PM Daniel Stone wrote: > > Hi all, > I'd like to open up a discussion on enlarging wayland-protocols to a > wider audience, with a better definition of what it contains. Hi Daniel, thanks for moving forward this discussion. To me your suggestions overall sound very s

[ANNOUNCE] weston 5.0.91

2019-02-19 Thread Derek Foreman
This is the alpha release for weston 6.0. A lot has happened for this release, some big items to note are: We now have xdg-shell stable support! We've moved to meson as our primary build system and have deprecated the autotools build entirely. You need to run configure with --enable-autotools to

[ANNOUNCE] wayland 1.16.91

2019-02-19 Thread Derek Foreman
This is the alpha release for wayland 1.17. In addition to some clean-ups and bug fixes, we now have protocol to express an internal server error message, and a new version of the wl_seat protocol with no changes other than keymaps must be private. Full commit history follows: Christopher James

Re: wayland-protocols scope and governance

2019-02-19 Thread Drew DeVault
This is a great plan, Daniel, thank you for taking the time to write it up and help push this problem towards a solution. On 2019-02-19 4:50 PM, Daniel Stone wrote: > My first, hopefully uncontroversial, suggestion: introduce a list of > compositors / compositor frameworks, as well as clients / c

Re: wayland-protocols scope and governance

2019-02-19 Thread Simon Ser
On Tuesday, February 19, 2019 5:50 PM, Daniel Stone wrote: > Hi all, > I'd like to open up a discussion on enlarging wayland-protocols to a > wider audience, with a better definition of what it contains. First of all, thanks a lot for bringing this up and taking the time to write a proposal! >

wayland-protocols scope and governance

2019-02-19 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi all, I'd like to open up a discussion on enlarging wayland-protocols to a wider audience, with a better definition of what it contains. Currently, wayland-protocols is a relatively small set of protocols which were either grandfathered in from Weston, or a semi-opinionated set of protocols that

Weston/wayland release schedule

2019-02-19 Thread Derek Foreman
Hello, Thanks everyone for the flurry of activity reviewing and landing important patches for the release! In agreement with Daniel's suggestion to freeze and release today, I'm going to start rolling the alpha shortly. Here's the final release schedule: Alpha: today, February 19th Beta: March

Re: Question about linux-explicit-synchronization

2019-02-19 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 at 10:13, Scott Anderson wrote: > On 18/02/19 11:02 pm, Daniel Stone wrote: > > Doing this gets _really_ tricky as you start considering things like > > synchronised subsurfaces (which always seems to be the case), since > > you have to make sure you're not presenting incoheren

Re: Upcoming release

2019-02-19 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi, On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 16:05, Derek Foreman wrote: > On 1/18/19 4:20 PM, Derek Foreman wrote: > > 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