On 1/30/19 6:19 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 12:13:12 +0200 > Pekka Paalanen <ppaala...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 10:05:47 -0600 >> Derek Foreman <derek.foreman.sams...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 1/18/19 4:20 PM, Derek Foreman wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> It's been quite some time since our last weston release, and there's >>>> been some discussion of getting the next one out in the January to March >>>> timeframe (this would be the last release to have an autotools build, btw). >>>> >>>> Does anyone have objections to an early February freeze and a March >>>> release? Anyone with large series near completion? >>>> >>>> Also, I'd like to float the idea of removing the fbdev backend for this >>>> release (or the next). The bulk of the interesting features target the >>>> drm backend, and it feels like fbdev can sometimes be a bit of a pain to >>>> update when changes are required elsewhere. Any strong opinions either >>>> way? >>> >>> Ok, I've heard no complaints, and we really are overdue... >>> >>> There's been some reasonable pushback against dropping fbdev >>> immediately, so let's leave that in for this release. >>> >>> As to the release schedule, maybe: >>> February 1, Alpha >>> February 15, Beta >>> March 1, RC1 >>> March 8 as a first potential final release date. >>> >>> Is this too soon to enter freeze? It's not a lot of warning. >>> >>> Wayland has had enough changes that I think another joint release makes >>> sense. >> >> Hi, >> >> here are my picks from the pending reviews. I don't mean that we should >> wait on them unless noted explicitly below.
Thanks for putting this list together. >> Wayland: >> >> I reviewed https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/49379/ and it needs >> work. >> >> https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/38564/ is probably something I >> should look into to have in the alpha. > > That one landed. > >> >> Weston: >> >> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/merge_requests/66 is >> something I'd like to land, but it needs a small touch. >> >> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/merge_requests/62 is >> probably important enough, that I'd be willing to postpone the release >> until we get that in. Looks like it is very close. Jonas mentioned this one on IRC too. Looks like it's close enough to delay the release for, and I think everyone would really like to see it landed. >> Since Meson is a new thing, >> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/merge_requests/85 would >> probably be nice to decide on. >> >> Getting NEWS files would be cool too. This was just the first attempt >> that got useful feedback but I never had the time to take it further: >> https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/16218/ >> > > I took a look at the Weston changes since 5.0.0 release: > > - the exported symbols from weston executable have changed, backwards > incompatible, but this probably shouldn't count against libweston > major > > - struct weston_head gained a new member > > - struct weston_compositor gained new members > > - struct weston_surface gained a new member > > I guess these are reasons enough to bump the major to 6, right? > > Would have been interesting to release a 5.1.0, too bad. :-) Thanks for looking into this, as I wasn't sure yet what the new release would be called. :) Sounds like a 6 to me. We'll definitely be in a holding pattern until the xdg-shell (MR 62) stuff lands. Thanks, Derek > > Thanks, > pq > _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel