[Openchrome-devel] Need for a new release before xorg 7.5

[Rafał Miłecki]

2009/10/3 Xavier Bachelot <xavier at bachelot.org>:
> X server 1.7 is out and xorg 7.5 will soon be out too. The 0.2.903
> release of openchrome is more than 1 year old now and won't even build
> against x server 1.7, as pointed out on xorg mailing list[1]. It's fixed
> in trunk, but it would be nice to get a release out before xorg 7.5. I
> took care of all the previous releases but I'm having less and less time
> to spend on openchrome these days, and I'm not the one to fix bugs, as
> you all know by now. I can try to gather a list of the most critical
> bugs blocking a release, then do the grunt work to have a release out,
> but I need developers to work on the blockers. In the worst case, I
> think I'll just release trunk as is, and hope we'll don't get hurt by
> too much regressions. After all, I've been feeding Fedora with trunk
> snapshots for a long time now, and it's not that bad.
> This mail is also somewhat a call to arms. Who's still around and have
> time to dedicate to the project in general, and this release in particular ?
>
> Regards,
> Xavier
>
> [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2009-October/047504.html

NEWS:
> Disable TMDS by default for now, output detection is not working properly.

Could we "steal" detection code from VIA's driver? Does it do it any better?


I would like to wait a few day more for potential answer for xgamma
regression. Lets give reported some more time (up to 2 weeks?) to
respond.

-- 
Rafa?