The road to Wayland/Weston 1.6 and 1.5.1

[Eoff, Ullysses A]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wayland-devel [mailto:wayland-devel-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Pekka Paalanen
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 2:49 AM
> To: Eoff, Ullysses A
> Cc: krh@; Jasper St. Pierre; wayland-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: The road to Wayland/Weston 1.6 and 1.5.1
> 
> 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?
> 
> 

Oh yes, alpha has been two weeks in the past... I forgot.  Even my personal
notes about the 1.6 release cycle dates indicate that ;).  Two weeks for
alpha is perfect!

Thanks,
U. Artie