[Mesa-dev] [Mesa-stable] A candidate branch for the next stable release

[Emil Velikov]

On 02/05/14 23:25, Carl Worth wrote:
> Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> writes:
>> Had some trivial nitpick with it earlier, which is not a reason for the patch
>> to not go in as is. Pushed to master - commit
>> 625bdd64e5ea3327d4459b1ccccff8dab89129d0
> 
> Thanks for the review and push!
> 
Which has caused a build breakage (fixed with commit
0b307afd57082f0d4a0e8ba19093d313c9fb46ad) :\

>>   mesa: Remove redundant if checks in _mesa_texstore_xx_xx() functions
>>
>> Never (?) been nominated to stable. Reviewed and merged in master - commit
>> ef924f0de93accff2ea12dbd90cc3c1df794c8f5
> 
> That's odd. I wonder how it ended up on my list. Clearly some mistake I
> made.
> 
>>   glsl: Try vectorizing when seeing a repeated assignment to a channel.
>>
>> Reviewed and merged in master - commit
>> ae2a03b5736037128fb071595717f300d5b3afd5
> 
> Not only merged in master. This one was included as part of the 10.1.1
> release already. No wonder I wasn't seeing it appear on master after
> that. ;-)
> 
> So that's another one that simply didn't belong on my list.
> 
>>   wayland: Prevent zero sized wl_egl_window
>>
>> Not reviewed but already in master - commit
>> c9d6898fdfd7e23306762af9bf2501a5bca1974
> 
> Ahah! It looks like this was a case where Ander was doing an
> after-the-fact nomination of a commit that was already on master. But
> since it was sent to the mesa-stable@ list as a patch, I mistakenly
> thought it was a newly-proposed patch, so I was waiting for it to appear
> on master.
> 
> I'll update the instructions for after-the-fact nominations to suggest
> sending a sentence with a commit ID:
> 
> 	Please pick commit <id> to the stable branch.
> 
> rather than instructing people to send patches in this case.
> 
> And that should avoid the confusion.
> 
Hmm I seem to recall that this was documented already. Perhaps was only
discussed but never made it into the documentation ?

>> Hope that helps a bit.
> 
> Yes. Very much. Thanks for tracking down the details of each of
> these. It will be nice to have a stable release with a nearly-empty list
> of nominated-but-not-yet-applied patches.
> 
Glad I could help.

-Emil
> -Carl
>