[Mesa-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Mesa 18.1.2 release candidate

[Dylan Baker]

Quoting Juan A. Suarez Romero (2018-06-19 00:08:27)
> On Fri, 2018-06-15 at 09:36 -0700, Dylan Baker wrote:
> > Quoting Juan A. Suarez Romero (2018-06-15 07:26:18)
> > > On Thu, 2018-06-14 at 10:16 -0700, Dylan Baker wrote:
> > > > Quoting Bas Nieuwenhuizen (2018-06-14 09:21:49)
> > > > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 6:13 PM,  <dylan at pnwbakers.com> wrote:
> > > > > > Hello list,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > The candidate for the Mesa 18.1.2 is now available. Currently we have:
> > > > > >  - 42 queued
> > > > > >  - 6 nominated (outstanding)
> > > > > >  - and 0 rejected patches
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Notable changes in this release:
> > > > > > - numerous fixes for radv
> > > > > > - libatomic checks for meson, as well as fixing coverage for less common (not
> > > > > >   arm or x86) platforms
> > > > > > - lots of common Intel fixes
> > > > > > - GLX fixes
> > > > > > - tarball fixes for android
> > > > > > - meson assembly fixes for x86 when doing an x86 -> x86 cross compile
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Take a look at section "Mesa stable queue" for more information.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Testing reports/general approval
> > > > > > --------------------------------
> > > > > > Any testing reports (or general approval of the state of the branch) will be
> > > > > > greatly appreciated.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > The plan is to have 18.1.2 this Friday (June 13th), around or shortly after 10
> > > > > > AM PDT.
> > > > > 
> > > > > June 15th?
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, June 15th.
> > > > 
> > > > Apparently being woken up at 5AM does more brain damage than I thought.
> > > 
> > > Also, we usually wait 48h (two days) between the pre-announcement and the final
> > > release, to give more time for testing.
> > > 
> > > 
> > >         J.A.
> > > 
> > 
> > I don't even understand why we make these announcements TBH. I have a public
> > 18.1-proposed branch that I push to *every weekday*. 
> 
> 
> Out of curiosity, any reason to keep the proposed branch in your personal
> repository, instead of in main Mesa repo?
> 
> 
> I thought the proposal was to have those proposed/wip branches in the main
> repository, so everybody is aware were they are, no matter who is in charge of
> the release.
> 
> 
>         J.A.
> 
> > Anyone can pull that branch
> > *anytime* to get the latest version. The only thing the announce email really
> > serves AFAICT, is to say "the staging/proposed branch has been merged to the
> > release branch". I don't think that's all that interesting TBH.
> > 
> > Dylan

I just remembered that you can set two push remotes for a single branch, so I
think I'll add a staging/18.1 branch to master as a second remote and push to
that as well. Do you like that name, or would you prefer something different?

Dylan
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