The road to Wayland/Weston 1.6 and 1.5.1

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:38:42 +0900
"Tanibata, Nobuhiko \(ADITJ/SWG\)" <ntanibata at jp.adit-jv.com> wrote:

> > -----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.

Thanks for keeping up. For the record, I am deliberately keeping your
IVI-shell comments and patches marked in my inbox with the hope that
one day I get back to it. :-)

I think there are still some things that need fixing, but my review has
to wait as I need to prioritize. Sorry.


Thanks,
pq