The road to Wayland/Weston 1.6 and 1.5.1

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 20:55:52 +0800
Boyan Ding <stu_dby at 126.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 14:35 +0300, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> > 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)?
> > 
> [...]
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> There are two patches for xwayland part in weston that has stood for
> quite a while:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2014-July/015885.html
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2014-July/015886.html
> with the first one being a little feature and the second one
> a simple bugfix.
> 
> Also another patch that doesn't got reviewed but quite important:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2014-August/016307.html
> It should follow c4902124 and 9c5aedff in master (and also in 1.5
> branch) but I left that out then.

All three adressed, I think.

Feel free to poke me again when I start asking about what I forgot from
the stable branches. I'd like to let things live a bit in master, if at
all possible.


Thanks,
pq