On 16 January 2018 at 22:10, Daniel Stone <dan...@fooishbar.org> wrote:
> Hey Bryce,
>
> On 12 January 2018 at 22:51, Derek Foreman <der...@osg.samsung.com> wrote:
>> On 2018-01-12 04:00 AM, Daniel Stone wrote:
>>> I did a clearout of the review queue last month, but that's not yet
>>> complete, and I'd like someone to have a more structured look at the
>>> queue (or just to look at all ...) to find stuff that should make it
>>> into the next release. Currently, we have at least Derek's zombie
>>> series, my atomic series and Pekka's clone-mode series, which are all
>>> unlikely to land before Tuesday, but are seemingly very close to
>>> having at least their foundations land.
>>>
>>> I think it would be best to announce a date before FOSDEM, but make
>>> sure we have a good handle on the state of the tree before we do and
>>> make sure we don't unnecessarily drop things. That would include
>>> keeping a close eye on how it develops, rather than just running
>>> release.sh on a strict timer. I was pretty unhappy last time when we
>>> put out a release in the middle of discussing a possibly-critical
>>> patchset; reading the list would've pointed to a few hours' or one
>>> day's delay as being helpful, but in the end the release just abruptly
>>> went out and made the whole thing moot.
>>>
>>> Given how much we could potentially be landing, I think we would need
>>> someone more actively involved (patch-herding, review, testing,
>>> list/IRC discussion) to handle the release process; I'm happy to do
>>> that for this release.
>>
>> I'm able to dedicate time to these tasks for the foreseeable future.
>>
>> If there's interest, I can take on a few release cycles.
>
> That would be great, thanks! I'm going to land the most invasive
> chunks of the atomic work (up to patch 8, using a drm_plane for the
> scanout/primary plane) tomorrow, and if we can go through rapidly
> enough to land the most dangerous part ('move repaint state
> application to flush'), then landing actual core atomic support should
> be a slam-dunk. It might make sense to try to land some of Pekka's
> output rework as well, depending on the magnitude of API change.
>
> I think everything Emil nominated seems good, and I've been wondering
> about a few others to have a closer look at:> https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/34624/ (needs rework I think, > oh wait that happened in > https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/35175/) The latter is the updated version. Feel free to ignore my nitpicks or tweak to your (committer's) liking ;-) I've skimmed through one of the other patches. Can help with the rest - do let me know. -Emil _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
