Minutes from August 30 Release Wranglers call

[Danny Backx]

I don't understand. I probably missed something.

I tried testing the release candidates on Mandrake on my PC.
The server keeps having keyboard problems.

I documented this in bug 1176.

Yet I don't see it appear in messages such as the one below.
Also I don't really see confirmation that this is a problem,
or denial (obviously I may be doing something wrong).

	Danny

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 22:08, Paul Anderson wrote:
> All,
> 
> The minutes from today's Release Wrangler's call.
> 
> 
> Attendees
> ---------
> Paul Anderson
> Stuart Kreitman
> Kevin Martin
> Egbert Eich
> Alan Coopersmith
> Keith Packard
> Leon Shiman
> Dan McNichol
> 
> 
> Release status
> --------------
> People are continuing to fix bugs.  Things are slowly coming
> together.  We're getting more testing.  There have been a few
> reports from people who are testing RC3.  Kevin feels things
> are in fairly good shape.  Pending some other issues, we are
> very close to a release.  Fairly soon, the low-weight blockers
> will be changed to "known issues" in the release notes.
> Egbert noted that he has found a bug with colors and DRI on
> some platforms, but he needs to investigate this further.
> 
> Bug status
> ----------
> Reminder: #351 is the bug for the release
> 
>  #999: Release notes for X11R6.8
>        There are two issues: (1) Pulling together the information and
>        (2) building the documentation files.  Kevin is getting some
>        warnings when building the SGML.  Keith and Egbert aren't having
>        problems generating the documentation during the build process.
>        As for content, it is coming along.  Soeren has gone through
>        the CHANGELOG and pulled as much as he could out of there.
> 
> #1029: 
>        Egbert did the final cleanup on Friday and did what Alexander
>        Gottwald suggested, so people should not be stopped from 
>        testing/using this.  Egbert would like people to test this
>        and provide feedback.  If he doesn't hear anything by tomorrow,
>        he will assume it is OK.
> 
> #1099: Placeholder for all bugs held open for this release, but not blocking
>        Kevin has not seen any new items opened against this.
> 
> #1109: ATI Rage Mobility on Dell Inspiron 7500 fails to display anything
>        It sounds like the card isn't getting initialized properly.  It is
>        unlikely this will get fixed for the release, so it should get added
>        to the release notes.  If a patch were available, it would be
>        accepted, but nobody has that particular configuration to do any
>        troubleshooting.  Kevin asked if this should be moved from #351 to
>        #1099, and there were no objections.
>        
> #1168: Damage crashes with rootless layer
>        Windows in a "regular" server always have a valid pixmap, but
>        that is not necessarily so in the rootless Xserver.  The changes
>        that have been thought of thus far are considered too scary to
>        make this close to a release.
> 
> #1182: Xim deadlocks in certain situations
>        Egbert would still like to get an additional comment on his
>        proposed patch.  Several people have looked at the code and found
>        that the input method code isn't thread safe as the XFilterEvent()
>        function will lock the display, and then subsequent functions
>        lock the display.
> 
> 
> There are still several other blockers that need discussion.  At this
> point, Kevin doesn't feel we can release tomorrow, since the remaining
> issues to resolve will not be finished today.  If we did not release
> tomorrow, we would likely have to delay the release a week, because
> Kevin may have to travel. 
> 
> Given the pending vote with the Architecture Board (see minutes
> on xorg_arch when they are available), the release will not happen
> on Tuesday.  The release will be delayed until the decision on
> Xaw/Xp is made by the Architecture Board and the resulting decision
> has received adequate testing.  This will cause the release to be
> delayed beyond August 31.
> 
> Next meeting
> ------------
> TBD, depending on Kevin's travel schedule and release status
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> -paul
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