[compiz] [ANNOUNCE] compiz-0.5.4

Kristian Høgsberg krh at bitplanet.net
Tue Aug 21 15:20:37 PDT 2007


On 8/21/07, Danny Baumann <dannybaumann at web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > > I'm not sure what will end up in 0.6 and not. I'm not going to be much
> > > in charge of what goes into 0.6 and not. We can revert the commit that
> > > added the XCB requirement and re-base the 0.6 branch on head if people
> > > are interested in that.
> >
> > I think 0.6 got branched at a good time.  The XCB requirement is
> > something I'd like to avoid for this release.
>
> Yeah, I also think we definitely don't want the XCB requirement in the
> 0.6 release (sidenote: When will the libX11 1.1.2 specfile in CVS land
> in rawhide? ;-) ).

Built :)

> > The options rewrite
> > looks like a big improvement, but it breaks compiz-fusion
> > compatibility, so I think it makes sense to not include that in 0.6
> > either.
>
> The CF compatibility is no big deal, we just need a few days to adapt
> the code. The plugins, libcompizconfig and the backends are already
> done; just the python bindings and ccsm is missing at the moment.

Is there a 0.6 branch for the CF plugins?

> The more interesting question from my POV is if we want to pull the
> action changes in due to their size. They bring good improvements, but
> big changesets always may bring along some regressions; and our time
> window for release is not too big. Any thoughts on that?

I fully agree.  I think it's important to put out a release soon to
mark the merger of compiz and beryl, and the current 0.6 branch point
marks a point in time where all the compiz fusion plugins have been
updated to work with the new compiz core, but no big new changes have
been added yet. AFAIK.

> > Since I have some interest in seeing the 0.6 release go out, I can
> > volunteer to drive that unless somebody else wants to.
>
> I started charry-picking to the 0.6 branch, but if you have some spare
> time, help is always appreciated ;-)
> I will pick up the plain bug fixes from master over the next few days.

Sounds good, will do.

> > I have a few
> > patches over here that I think are suitable for the 0.6 branch
> >
> >   http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~krh/compiz/log/?h=fedora
> >
> > Aside from those changes, my plan for 0.6 is to just collect what
> > fixes come in from fedora and other distros and then release 0.6
> > mid-september.  How does that sound?
>
> That sounds pretty good - actually, I wanted to propose a release within
> 4-6 weeks when I read your mail, so our schedules seem to match :-)
> I'd think we have a look at the patches the distros carry (Fedora,
> OpenSuse and especially Ubuntu, as those are the guys who want to enable
> Compiz by default) and the bug trackers and do a release when there are
> no show-stopping and/or annoying bugs left.

I don't know - I think it makes more sense to just fix as many bugs as
we can up until the release date and then push it out.

Kristian


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