Timelines for Wayland/Weston 1.7 and 1.6.1

[nerdopolis]

On Tuesday, January 13, 2015 03:43:28 PM Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've volunteered to help handle the 1.7 and 1.6.1 releases, including
> alphas and pre-releases.  This email outlines the plan; for those who've
> been through a release before there should be no surprises here.
> 
> 
> == Wayland/Weston 1.7.0 ==
> 
> The last release announcement outlines the schedule for releasing 1.7:
> 
>   - 1.7-alpha release in mid-January 2015, around January 16th, so people
>     have a couple of weeks after holidays to push the last minute stuff.
>     This is the deadline for any big features.
> 
>   - 1.7-rc1 around January 30th. Only bug fixes after this.
> 
>   - 1.7-rc2 around February 6th.
> 
>   - 1.7.0 release around February 13th, Friday.
> 
> If you have features or large refactorings that you feel strongly should
> be included in 1.7, but aren't going to make it by Friday, drop me an
> email.
> 
> For bug fixes, doc content, test cases, and other low-risk work, you
> still have a couple weeks.  However, since the review queue is still
> fairly backed up, it'll depend on how much the maintainers can get
> through.
> 
> 
> == Stable Wayland/Weston 1.6.1 ==
> 
> I'll be doing stable releases of wayland and weston as well.
> 
>   - 1.6.1 around January 23rd.
> 
> I'll be cherry-picking patches from 1.7.x - bug fixes, protocol doc
> changes, improved error handling, new test cases, and minor doxygen
> content updates.  No refactoring or changes that depend on refactoring,
> nothing that alters return codes or types, or in any way changes the
> API.  For weston, nothing that changes compositor.h.
> 
> If anyone has anything specific they'd like to see included in the
> stable branch that has already landed on the master branch, please drop
> me an email and I'll try to make sure it gets cherry-picked.
I think David's patches should be considered http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2014-December/019196.html
I tested them on both fbdev-backed and drm-backend, and fix https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86889 with no problems I noticed
> 
> 
> == Notes ==
> 
> 1: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2014-September/017396.html
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