Bring on the release wrangling

[Adam Jackson]

It's that time again.  This round looks to be quite a bit simpler than the 7.1 
process was, many fewer modules have seen updates, and at least two of the 
big X server branches (pci-rework and input-hotplug) are claimed by their 
owners to be targetted at 7.3.

The schedule is on the wiki at:

http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/ReleaseSchedule

And just to make it easy, it currently looks like:

Nomination: September 15
Selection:  September 29
RC1:        October 6
RC2:        October 27
RC3:        November 10
7.2 GA:     November 17

For the nomination phase, if you own a module, kindly speak up as to which 
branch you want to be included in the 7.2 katamari, and which branches (if 
any) you plan to merge between then and now.  Feature completion should be 
done by RC1.

For those modules with no owner, I'll likely just pick the stable branch.

For the X server, if you've got bits to merge, start talking about them so we 
can decide what needs inclusion.  I've got a smallish patch set in Fedora 
that I want to see included, which mostly takes care of the problem of EDID 
mode injection and some miscellaneous other autoconfig bits.  We've also got 
a fairly constant bug level relative to 7.1 and I'd like to see that come 
down a bit.

I've been hacking up some scripts to automate the release process a bit, one 
of which will probably involve checking a list into git of module/version 
pairs so we have the list in a centralized place.  Also the documentation was 
horribly mishandled last time around (my fault); if someone wanted to take 
ownership of that particular subproject I certainly wouldn't object.

- ajax
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