Landing priorities for 1.8

[Bryce Harrington]

With just a few days left until RC2, we're shifting review focus to
bugfixes, tests, documentation, and low-risk changes.

After RC2, we'll be limiting changes to just release critical fixes.

Bryce

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 02:53:58PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> In patchwork, ideally I'd like to see all the patchsets marked 'Under
> Review' dealt with, since those are all ones we postponed for 1.7.  I
> see there's been good progress at processing most of those, and there's
> really just Guulio's libweston patchset and Derek's zoom series that are
> left.
> 
> As to libweston, I imagine it at least needs rebased, and for that
> reason maybe not a candidate for 1.8 inclusion at this point.  But since
> it sounds like we're now generally in consensus that this is a direction
> weston should go, it would probably be worthwhile to identify the next
> steps and a plan for getting it landed as soon as the 1.9 tree opens.
> 
> I'm not sure what the status is with Derek's zoom series but looks like
> it only got some cursory review back in January.  The code looks
> straightforward enough, and the patches are all pretty short and
> concise; is there anything of concern conceptually regarding the
> functionality itself?  Essentially it's just fixing a crash condition.
> Mightn't we just land it?
> 
> Beyond that, there's a number of one-off patches, many of which are
> legitimate bug fixes that would be nice to have in the release.
> Particularly all the input fixups.
> 
> I don't know that I'll have tons of time to do in depth reviews myself
> next week, but I will try and land things that get R-B's by others.  And
> I know reviewing can be kind of a thankless job... I'll try and focus my
> review time to stuff from people who are themselves doing review work.
> 
> Bryce
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