On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 06:47:57PM +0200, Daniel Stone wrote: > Hi, > > On 21 February 2017 at 22:59, Bryce Harrington <[email protected]> wrote: > > Our next major release will be version 1.14, which will be scheduled > > tentatively as follows: > > > > √ Development opens immediately > > > > - 1.14-alpha in early May > > > > - 1.14-beta around mid May > > > > - 1.14-rc1 late May, with rc2 only if necessary > > > > - 1.14.0 around beginning of June > > I'd like to discuss this. As it stands, we're around a week away from > shipping an alpha, and feature freezing. At this point, we have > already committed libweston breakage such that the SOVERSION has hit > 3. So far, we have nothing to offer for this breakage, just a bunch of > bugfixes and a pile of cleanups and groundwork that will only become > useful with future features. > > Quentin has a queue of work he'd like to get through here: > https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/bundle/sardemff7/next%20release/ > > There are a lot of patches in Patchwork we should really get through > as well, but I don't have time this week (travelling atm). I would > also like to get the atomic precursor work[0] landed if at all > possible. And I'm sure others have their own wishlists: Derek's > no-FD-leak series comes to mind, and I'm sure there are others if we > looked and triaged properly. > > So, my question: is it worth releasing now, or is a delay in order? If > we are to delay, we should set a new deadline, and put reasoning > behind this. For example, as a strawman, I believe about 6 weeks > should be sufficient to get aforementioned atomic work reviewed and > landed
Ah, ok, works for me; give me a ping once things are getting close to where you'd like me to do a release. Bryce > and it seems like we could also get Derek's FD leak series > plus the libweston output object changes reviewed in that time as > well. > > Also I think we should start having these discussions for future > releases. To be clear, this is _not_ about feature-based releases, but > looking at the time we have, and trying to concentrate all our efforts > towards things we would like to have for the release. If we had some > clear goals of what we thought we could get into the release, and what > would be valuable, we could put our efforts towards that, and > hopefully have some more focused releases. > > Thoughts? > > Cheers, > Daniel > > [0] Specifically, everything up to and including the 'atomic > modesetting support' patch, which lays the groundwork by adding the > state objects. All the work to actually properly assign planes on top > of that, will need to wait another cycle, given the lack of time for > review. _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
