On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:39:49PM -0500, nerdopolis wrote: > On Tuesday, January 13, 2015 03:43:28 PM Bryce Harrington wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've volunteered to help handle the 1.7 and 1.6.1 releases, including > > alphas and pre-releases. This email outlines the plan; for those who've > > been through a release before there should be no surprises here. > > > > > > == Wayland/Weston 1.7.0 == > > > > The last release announcement outlines the schedule for releasing 1.7: > > > > - 1.7-alpha release in mid-January 2015, around January 16th, so people > > have a couple of weeks after holidays to push the last minute stuff. > > This is the deadline for any big features. > > > > - 1.7-rc1 around January 30th. Only bug fixes after this. > > > > - 1.7-rc2 around February 6th. > > > > - 1.7.0 release around February 13th, Friday. > > > > If you have features or large refactorings that you feel strongly should > > be included in 1.7, but aren't going to make it by Friday, drop me an > > email. > > > > For bug fixes, doc content, test cases, and other low-risk work, you > > still have a couple weeks. However, since the review queue is still > > fairly backed up, it'll depend on how much the maintainers can get > > through. > > > > > > == Stable Wayland/Weston 1.6.1 == > > > > I'll be doing stable releases of wayland and weston as well. > > > > - 1.6.1 around January 23rd. > > > > I'll be cherry-picking patches from 1.7.x - bug fixes, protocol doc > > changes, improved error handling, new test cases, and minor doxygen > > content updates. No refactoring or changes that depend on refactoring, > > nothing that alters return codes or types, or in any way changes the > > API. For weston, nothing that changes compositor.h. > > > > If anyone has anything specific they'd like to see included in the > > stable branch that has already landed on the master branch, please drop > > me an email and I'll try to make sure it gets cherry-picked. > I think David's patches should be considered > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2014-December/019196.html > I tested them on both fbdev-backed and drm-backend, and fix > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86889 with no problems I noticed
Sounds good, thanks for flagging them, I'll take a look. Bryce > > == Notes == > > > > 1: > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2014-September/017396.html > > _______________________________________________ > > wayland-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel > > _______________________________________________ > wayland-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
