Minutes from August 6 Release Wranglers call

[Roland Mainz]

Kevin E Martin wrote:
> > - https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=993 ("Build failure
> > with |#define BuildXevie NO|")
> 
> I've checked in changes to fix this problem (and another one that the
> first fix uncovered).  The changes I had to make to event.c seemed
> reasonable, but I would appreciate it if someone more familiar with
> Xevie could look at the solution to make sure everything still works
> properly.
> 
> Also, this brings up an issue that was raised on the xorg at fdo mailing
> list: Are we going to keep Xevie in Xext or are we going to put it into
> a library of its own?

IMHO a seperate library would make more sense. AFAIK the XEVIE stuff is
currently work-in-progress and the functionality will grow in the future
and it may be easier to handle the versioning using shared library
versions/revisions of a seperate XEVIE extension library...

> > - https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=906 ("CVS trunk does
> > not compile with |#define OptimizedCDebugFlags -g -DDEBUG|")
> 
> Could someone start looking into this one?  There are numerous failures
> with -DDEBUG.  This is going to take a while to sort out.

Is there a way to get that fixed before friday ?

> > Another issue which cases headaches for me is
> > https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=961 ("Xnest crashes in
> > damagePaintWindow()"): Xnest doesn't seem to start anymore... ;-(
> 
> I have not been able to reproduce this one on an IA-32 box.  There have
> been quite a few changes since the bug report was filed, so I don't know
> if this still occurs.  Please verify that it still happens on your AMD64
> box.

Yeah, it seems to be working now. Maybe the issue is AMD64 or
64bit-specific (somewhere I saw a report about PPC having problems with
Xnest today... ;-( ) ...

> > Finally:
> > Is it allowed to update manual pages and other documentation during the
> > freeze (https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=811 comes in
> > mind) ?
> 
> Yes, documentation fixes are both still allowed and encouraged.

OK, Thanks! :)

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Bye,
Roland

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