The road to Wayland/Weston 1.6 and 1.5.1

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:36:19 +0000
"Eoff, Ullysses A" <ullysses.a.eoff at intel.com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pekka Paalanen [mailto:ppaalanen at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 4:36 AM
> > To: wayland-devel at lists.freedesktop.org; krh@
> > Cc: Eoff, Ullysses A; Peter Hutterer; Jasper St. Pierre
> > 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)?
> > 
> 
> Just wanted you to know I'm still following the project, albeit quite
> silently these days due to other tasks ;).  Nonetheless, my test team is
> ready to ramp up our usual manual testing for this 1.6 release cycle.
> Our in-house automated builds and tests have still been running and
> continue to run without issue.
> 
> I want to make sure we stay synced up during each phase of this
> release cycle.  As you know, it takes us about 3-4 days to complete a
> manual test run... this includes execution, reflection, and reporting.
> As long as you plan to continue the usual 1 week phases for each
> alpha (1.5.91), beta 1 (1.5.92) and beta 2 (1.5.93) then we should be
> able to keep up.
> 
> We don't have plans to add any new test cases to our manual test
> set this time.  So our testing will only be regression testing, essentially.
> Also, our testing only covers the DRM (w/libinput) and X11 backends
> using the Desktop shell (w/cairo-glesv2) on specific Intel-based
> hardware.  If there are new features and/or other recipes (hardware,
> backends, etc.) then I trust others will cover those.

Hi Artie,

glad to hear, sounds good. :-)

Yes, I will try to do things in the same schedule as always, having at
least one week between steps. Maybe alpha phase could be two weeks long?


Thanks,
pq

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