The road to Wayland/Weston 1.6 and 1.5.1

[Giulio Camuffo]

2014-08-18 15:14 GMT+03:00 Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:57:37 +0300
> Giulio Camuffo <giuliocamuffo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2014-08-18 14:35 GMT+03:00 Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com>:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > in the release announcement of 1.5.0[1] it was said that the alpha
>> > release towards 1.6 should come out mid-August. That time is now, so
>> > how about we target Friday, Aug 22nd (European time)?
>> >
>> > I know the review process has been lagging behind badly, and we
>> > probably won't see e.g. IVI-shell merged for 1.6, but I try to do what
>> > I can. What major features have been forgotten on the mailing list
>> > unmerged, that you would like to see included in 1.6?
>>
>> I had these patches which I'd like to see going in:
>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2013-December/012589.html
>
> This one looks pretty simple, and I can confirm the problem with
> CapsLock, so yes, I'd like to take this. Could you rebase it?

Ok, i'll do that this evening.

>
>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2013-December/012590.html
>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2013-December/012591.html
>
> Of these two, the first needs the second to be used at all, right? The
> follow-up comment is true, I would not want NumLock be on by default on
> my laptop, so I think this needs more work, like you have identified.

Well, yeah. The first one just introduces some API of which there are
no users, without the second one.
I think it has value on its own, but  anyway i can work on that weston
option if it something we want.

--
Giulio

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>
> Thanks,
> pq