On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Pekka Paalanen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > here is the alpha release on our road to 1.6.0: > > 0b0513706eee5a43d33f5e4bc9cafa5d78037db5 wayland-1.5.91.tar.xz > 6d0f298665e0f6b11a18ab6b6ccc49ba990b4b3e wayland 1.5.91 tag > > 59b3f1fa9456ed9cf6b21201647ce3a96c91e03b weston-1.5.91.tar.xz > 652c794b5d54d4c3eb849746e1372bcb9c4d96d3 weston 1.5.91 tag > > The release plan continues as follows: > > - two weeks to let the alpha version stabilize, and only merge small > features along with bug fixes > > - RC1 release on September 5th, Friday > > - bugfixing > > - RC2 release on September 12th, Friday > > - hopefully no more bugfixing much > > - 1.6.0 release on September 19th, Friday > > - at some point later master branch opens again for all new things > > We have moved from a dedicated maintainer (Kristian) project to a > community maintained project, where several key people have commit > rights, but no-one is dedicated as the maintainer, at least yet. Things > started very slowly and the review backlog grew enormous, as Kristian > was no longer heroically reviewing and committing everything, and > everyone had their own $jobs to do. > > Collabora agreed to let me run the alpha release as I had a convenient > break from other projects, so you could say this release is brought to > you by Collabora. ;-) > > Also, a huge thank you to all contributors! > > I will leave the list of new things for the final 1.6.0 announcement, > but I probably should mention xdg-shell now. > > Just before this alpha release, we bumped the xdg-shell experimental > version[1]. This means that the world breaks, as the experimental > version must be matched exactly. Jasper will be bumping Mutter and Gtk > to match. We expect to have another bump before 1.6.0 is out, but after > that I think it will be solid. > > Then, in 1.7.0 we plan to move the xdg-shell.xml file into Wayland, to > be installed as a stable protocol for everyone to use, and projects can > throw away their private copies of xdg-shell.xml. That would be the > point where xdg-shell starts to guarantee backwards compatibility. The > 1.7.0 release should be the last flag day for xdg-shell. > One small note here. Even if we don't make any changes to xdg_shell between 1.6 and 1.7, the universe will break again at 1.7. This is because we'll pull the experimental_version request which changes the order of things. Do we have a plan for how to keep this from going too badly? --Jason Ekstrand > > I'll be updating the website with download links soon. Let the bug hunt > begin. :-) > > > Thanks, > pq > > [1] > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/commit/?id=71182aed843c2927a695c3686d6f7023e44cc0bb > _______________________________________________ > wayland-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel >
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