Wayland and Weston 1.6 alpha snapshot (1.5.91)

[Peter Hutterer]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 07:08:59PM +0300, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> here is the alpha release on our road to 1.6.0:
> 
>   0b0513706eee5a43d33f5e4bc9cafa5d78037db5  wayland-1.5.91.tar.xz
>   6d0f298665e0f6b11a18ab6b6ccc49ba990b4b3e  wayland 1.5.91 tag
> 
>   59b3f1fa9456ed9cf6b21201647ce3a96c91e03b  weston-1.5.91.tar.xz
>   652c794b5d54d4c3eb849746e1372bcb9c4d96d3  weston 1.5.91 tag
> 
> The release plan continues as follows:
> 
> - two weeks to let the alpha version stabilize, and only merge small
>   features along with bug fixes
> 
> - RC1 release on September 5th, Friday
> 
> - bugfixing
> 
> - RC2 release on September 12th, Friday
> 
> - hopefully no more bugfixing much
> 
> - 1.6.0 release on September 19th, Friday
> 
> - at some point later master branch opens again for all new things

Just as a heads-up for now: the change to libinput as default backend had
some unexpected fallout in the calibration code. Long story short, the
calibration as used in weston without libinput requires the translation
component of the calibration matrix to be in pixels. That's not something we
can do in libinput. This also breaks the WL_CALIBRATION handling.

We're working on a solution, but that solution will also require some extra
patches to Weston and to make it work we'll need to update both libinput and
weston at the same time.

Bug number is https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82742, patches
will be on the list when ready.
 
Cheers,
   Peter