On Friday, September 6, 2019 10:45 AM, Jonas Ådahl <jad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2.2. Protocol inclusion requirements > > > > > > a. All protocols found in the "xdg" and "wp" namespaces at the time of > > writing > > are grandfathered into their respective namespace without further > > discussion. > > b. Protocols in the "xdg" and "wp" namespace are eligible for inclusion > > only if > > ACKed by at least 3 members. > > c. Protocols in the "xdg" and "wp" namespace are ineligible for inclusion if > > if NACKed by any member. > > d. Protocols in the "xdg" and "wp" namespaces must have at least one > > open-source > > client implementation & two open-source server implementations to be > > eligible > > for inclusion. > > Maybe this was discussed in the past, but why two? If we'd travel back > in time, it'd stall the introduction of xdg-foreign (took quite a while > for a second server implementation to show up), which falls within the > xdg namespace scope, and it'd block addition of protocols only > interesting to a single compositor but multiple clients/toolkits (e.g. > something very tiling specific that maybe only wlroots would care about, > or something currently in gtk-shell that may be relevant for GNOME > Shell, gtk and Qt, but not for other compositors). > > Same for protocols like the tablet interface; I think it's too much of a > requirement to require the protocol author to provide TWO > implementations for such a protocol, and relying on others to implement > your protocol in their own compositors is quite a lot to ask IMHO. The > end result is more likely we end up with more things like > `gtk_primary_selection` instead of going upstream first. That's a very fair point. I think it would make sense to require more implementations for unstable → stable upgrades (which are very important, we can't fix those later). But for unstable protocols, you do have a point. I guess the original intention was to make a difference between xdg/wp inclusion and other namespaces: it should be harder to get a protocol merged in xdg/wp. Thoughts? _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
