[Mesa-dev] Mesa 17.2.0 release plan

[Emil Velikov]

On 16 July 2017 at 06:35, Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net> wrote:
> n Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 11:07 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As you may have noticed, for a little while now we've had the release
>> plan on the mesa3d.org website [1].
>>
>> Here is the current tentative schedule.
>>
>>  Jul 21 2017 - Feature freeze/Release candidate 1
>>  Jul 28 2017 - Release candidate 2
>>  Aug 04 2017 - Release candidate 3
>>  Aug 11 2017 - Release candidate 4/final release
>>
>> This gives us approximately 2 weeks to get new features in.
>>
>> As always, please let me know of must have features that you'll like
>> to merge before the branch point.
>
>
> Here's my wishlist:
>
>  1) I'd like to land the rest of Topi's work to convert the i965 driver over
> to ISL.  I really don't want to have a release where it's half old miptree
> code and half ISL.  That's going to make back-porting a real pain.
>
>  2) I've got a bunch of fixes to the miptree code that are currently WIP
> that I'd like to see go in.  If they don't make the branch point, I'll
> probably just CC the lot to stable so it's not a huge deal.
>
>  3) As many of the new Vulkan extensions as we can land.  But don't block
> the release on any of those.
>
It's a bit lengthy list considering we have a bit less than a week.

I've pushed my Vulkan fixes so you can merge the generator rework.
I'll try to lend a hand for the rest.

Thanks
Emil