Hi all, The Alpha-2 freeze has been announced, so now is probably a good time to evaluate where we are and what's ahead.
In terms of merges we're looking in good shape at the moment: http://www2.bryceharrington.org:8080/X/PkgList/versions_current.html The bulk of little package syncs/merges are done and nearly all the drivers are merged to latest versions. Most of the remaining pieces should be straightforward. The xserver pre-releases will start arriving. Sarvatt has already been working on the packaging of a git snapshot in his ppa. As upstream wraps that up, I would anticipate they'll also do releases of a lot of other bits and pieces that have git changes. In an ideal world, all that world will be done and packaged by Debian before June 25th, when DebianImportFreeze will be in effect, but more realistically I anticipate we're going to need to do a lot of manual sync requests and minor merges through July. The link above will be useful to keep track of what needs done. Aside from KMS, the big new feature of X.org this go-around is Xi2. Could someone with a better pulse on Xi2 thanI share some thoughts about its stability, what sorts of testing we should request users do (if any), and any regressions we should be on the lookout for? As to KMS, this is something we're focusing on heavily for Ubuntu. I'd love to see all of our video drivers support it, but at the moment it is looking like just -intel and (partly) -ati. I'm less optimistic about -nouveau after having played with it a bit and reviewed test results and status reports; it seems still a long way from being stable enough to rely on. Beyond features, we have plenty of bug reports: http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/totals.svg We got a hefty surge in following the jaunty release that we still need to slog through. The good news is the rate of new bugs seems to have leveled off. The areas that grew the most were -intel, -nvidia, and xserver. I think with UXA in place, -intel is starting to get under control finally: http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/drivers.svg However -nvidia is not looking good. Likely a lot of that growth is due to dupe bugs, since I think no one has been triaging them. If anyone does look into this, and finds patches or versions we could pull to help get a better handle on things, please report it to this list. It would be nice if we could get that curve flattened out. Finally, I'd just like to say thank you to everyone helping work on X in ubuntu, from packaging, to testing, to bugs, to docs. I know there's plenty of other interesting open source projects out there, so it's very exciting to see we're accumulating a good team around ubuntu-x. Bryce -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
