The road to Wayland/Weston 1.6 and 1.5.1

[Tanibata, Nobuhiko (ADITJ/SWG)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wayland-devel
[mailto:wayland-devel-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org]
> On Behalf Of Pekka Paalanen
> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 8:36 PM
> To: wayland-devel at lists.freedesktop.org; krh at bitplanet.net
> Cc: Jasper St. Pierre; U. Artie Eoff
> Subject: The road to Wayland/Weston 1.6 and 1.5.1
> 
> 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?
[ntanibata] Hi pq,
Thank you for notification. Patches of ivi-shell were improved with your
comment and the latest patch set is sent to the mailing list.
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2014-June/015616.htm
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http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2014-July/015968.htm
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http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2014-July/015969.htm
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http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2014-July/015970.htm
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I will try to verify them on 

Trankyo, Manuel, provides them in his github for trial as well:
https://github.com/Tarnyko/weston-ivi-shell
These ones are reviewed in upstream branch of TIZEN gerrit and verified.
This would be good opportunity to merge them to 1.6.
I am also working enabling ivi-shell support with efl and Qt, getting
help with Manuel and his colleges.

BR,
Nobuhiko Tanibata

> 
> I can't promise anything, and I know at least none of my new features
> (Presentation extension, new repaint scheduling algorithm, repaint
timeline
> logging, DRM universal planes & nuclear pageflip support, linux_dmabuf
> protocol sketch, and some smaller things) brewing in my personal
'next' branch
> will not make it.
> 
> Obviously a stable first version of xdg_shell would be great to see in
1.6,
> but we shall see if we can beat it into shape in time. When I reviewed
the
> XML spec not long ago, it was close but not ready in my opinion.
> 
> When xdg_shell does stabilize, we will move xdg_shell.xml into Wayland
> repository and it will be installed, but all build-time users of it
must
> generate their own wrappers with wayland-scanner or equivalent. This
means
> that libwayland-client will not contain any xdg_shell symbols or
headers
> pre-generated. I asked Kristian and he was ok with this plan, and I
have also
> talked a little on #wayland-devel, that maybe this would be a good
idea. If
> this turns out a bad idea, we can always fix it later. Doing it the
other
> way around would be near impossible.
> 
> Should we make libinput the default for 1.6, so that in 1.7 we can
remove
> the old input code, or is libinput API still too much in flux?
> 
> 
> Also, it was said that 1.5.1 should have come out in "a few weeks" and
it
> has been 3 months now. I will try and check the patches already in
'master'
> of both Wayland and Weston and pick them to the 1.5 branches, but if
you know
> of patches that should be in stable, especially ones without review or
not
> in 'master', let me know and I try do something.
> My selection, especially for Wayland, will probably be very
conservative,
> though, as my priority is 1.6.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> pq
> 
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