2010/4/11 Keith Packard <[email protected]>: > On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:02:27 +1000, Dave Airlie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'd have to agree here, I think we need to do 1.9 following the same >> process again and refine it a lot more. > > Yeah, developing the release process is almost as hard as developing the > code. >
The release process, although not on regular schedule, used to work fine. Right now it seems you are developing something similar to the old XFree86 days... >> Keith there were large stages during the 1.8 process where master was >> broken and you weren't tasked to fixing it, and people were relying on >> stuff from the list or other peoples branches. > > Would it be better to just pull broken stuff out of master at these > times? There are big portions of the server that I can't frankly test or > fix, like exa, as I have no hardware which uses that code. > Yes that is the point exactly, for example with EXA and likewise for drivers this schemes provides no advantage at all, and there is no way a single person can be relevant for code review/merge for the whole server. Stephane _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
