Call Friday 14 Jan 2005

[Roland Mainz]

Kevin E Martin wrote:
> 
> Here is the call info for the release wranglers call tomorrow:
> 
> Dial: +1-919-334-5215 or 1-888-HELLO-RH (888-435-5674 NAmerica Only)
> Date: Jan 14, 2005
> Time: 11:00 am (Eastern Time)
> Code: 733428
> 
> Agenda:
> - Continue discussing X11R6.8.2 release details and status
> 
> A more detailed agenda will be posted later.

* Small status overview:
- All known build issues should now be been resolved (with the gcc4.0
exception listed below)
- I got feedback that Solaris/SPARC (with Sun Workshop/Forte 9),
Linux/x86 (SuSE 8.2, tested myself), Linux/x86 Debian and AIX are
building without problems. Missing platforms (e.g. no feedback yet)
include IRIX, HP/UX, True64 and FreeBSD/OPenBSD/NetBSD
- I didn't had time to setup gcc4.0 for testing whether this compiles or
not - it would be nice if anyone who has gcc4.0 installed could try to
compile the tree with that compiler version - IMHO the stable branch
should build out-of-the-box with gcc4.0 before the final version gets
tagged.
- General feedback from testers seems to be quite good, several
distributions already made packages from the sources (it would be nice
if the download URLs (or links to download+install instructions) for the
binary packages could be posted here that I can make a "download"
page/readme/etc from that)

* Remaining issues:
- There are a couple of patches in the approval queue which need to be
discussed and approved/rejected/deferred (I'll post the triage map URL
later today)
- When should we define a date for the release ? This call, next week's
friday call ... ?
- While crawling through the various bugzilla reports filed since the
last release canidate https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2271
jumped into my eye - can anyone try to reproduce the issue, please ?
- VSW5 testing - has anyone TETware installed and run the tests with
X11R6.8.2RC2, please ?

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Bye,
Roland

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