On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Ton van Overbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Noticed that idle suspend was enabled again in recent joyrides. > pgf replied that this was intentional since we now have a revived 8.2 > build stream. > But I have not seen any announcement yet on branching/freezing etc. > What is the status and which builds should we be testing for the 8.2 release?
Michael and I have been working on creating an acceptable 8.2 test candidate. There have been 8.2-753, 8.2-754, 8.2-755, and 8.2-756 builds, but none of them have (so far) made it through initial QA here at 1cc. In particular, we tried to turn of X shared memory in the 8.2 stream to work around some of the known X corruption problems in Browse, Etoys, etc, but this turned out to cause more problems than it solved. In 755 and 756 we reverted that and turned off EXA instead. With koji out, we also had difficulty making a build which contained the latest work from the sugar guys. Build 8.2-756 is the first to contain recent sugar work. I believe the sugar snapshot made Friday inadvertently left out several important sugar bug fixes. I think the plan is for another sugar snapshot Wednesday-ish -- but 8.2-756 is our "best stable candidate so far". Michael (the release manager) will presumably announce it as such after we do our usual local QA to ensure it really is a reasonable candidate for test -- if he doesn't, it's because we've found some other major issue we want to fix before we let a release candidate loose on the world. =) [We'd like to get gstreamer and Record reverted to their 8.1 state to fix some video issues; that hasn't been done yet. Not sure if that will delay our first RC.] We will freeze once we have an acceptable release candidate. Again, with the koji outage a number of people have been scrambling to get their local fixes in, and it has been expedient just to continue synchronizing with joyride to pull in everyone's latest work. But the 8.2 stream has already diverged in some important areas: as noted in a previous email, cerebro and idle suspend are disabled, and at the moment X EXA acceleration is disabled as well. The sugar team has already forked from their 0.82 release for the stable stream. So we're getting darn close. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
