On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 05:35:31PM -0800, Keith Packard wrote: > > Ok, it's (almost) the first working day of the year, and we're supposed > to be shipping 1.17. I think we're quite close, but I want to make sure > everyone is ready for the release before it happens. > > From my list of pending patches, we've got: > > glamor: > some optimizations for lighter-weight hardware. Very useful, > don't seem like material for 1.17. > > modesetting: > There has been work on getting page flipping going here; given > that modesetting is all new functionality for 1.17, we can't > have any regressions, so if that code looks solid and is useful, > I'd be tempted to include it. > > prime: > Aaron posted a pair of patches dealing with GPU screen handling; > no review yet, but it seems like a useful fix if it is obvious, > correct and not scary. Review needed. > > Oracle: > Some warning fixes related to dtrace and DMX. These should wait > until after 1.17. > > present: > I posted a patch series that fixes Present interactions with > compositing managers. It seems 'obviously' correct to me, but it > hasn't seen any review. Unless someone gets really excited about > this, it'll have to wait until after 1.17. > > xwayland: > Tomasz posted a patch to move some shm file descriptors out of > the low range used for X clients; I've seen no discussion of > this, but it looks like it'd be nice to have > > Daniel posted a patch series to clear keys that were pressed > when switching back to X, and Peter and I agreed that the > results were useful, but that the implementation could be done a > bit differently with better results. I posted an > Xwayland-specific patch that papered over the worst problems. > Any of the more complete solutions seem a bit too invasive to me > for 1.17, but the simple hack seems like a good interim solution > if someone wants to push it. > > randr: > Tiling properties. This is (alas) an ABI change, so it will need > to wait until after 1.17. I think we'll want to merge this along > with the other randr changes to add 'monitors' so that we can > make gnome work properly with most 4k monitors. > > Beyond 1.17, if we can get a bunch of the pending glamor, modesetting > and randr changes merged soon after the release, I'd like to consider > doing a 1.18 release on a shorter schedule than 6 months. We've finally > reached the point where a pile of new feature code is waiting to land > once the merge window opens. We may be able to have a useful release > with a very short merge window. > > As always, this is just a suggestion. Failing a fairly strong rough > consensus, we should plan on retaining our existing 6 month schedule.
I think a shorter release window is worth a try. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
