[ANNOUNCE] wayland 1.7.93

[Bryce Harrington]

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:13:55AM +0300, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> On Tue, 26 May 2015 23:01:49 -0700
> Bryce Harrington <bryce at osg.samsung.com> wrote:
> 
> > Wayland 1.8 RC2 brings one change since RC1, a unit test case to
> > accompany the new core headers feature.
> > 
> > This core header feature, added previously this release cycle, is a new
> > scanner option --include-core-only, which creates new headers
> > wayland-client-core.h and wayland-server-core.h to avoid dependency on
> > the generated protocol headers.  This makes life a bit easier for
> > language bindings and other libwayland users that generate their own
> > protocol code from newer wayland.xml files.
> > 
> > We delayed the RC2 release due to a blocker issue in Weston; see the
> > Weston changelog for details on that.  Barring any unforeseen issues
> > we'll continue with the planned 1.8.0 release date this coming Friday.
> > 
> > 
> > Our schedule:
> > 
> >  √ Alpha (1.7.91)
> > 
> >  √ RC1 (1.7.92) on Friday, May 15th
> > 
> >  √ RC2 (1.7.93) on Friday, May 22nd
> > 
> >  - 1.8.0 on Friday, May 29th
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to propose to give a whole week for RC2 to brew, so postponing
> it the same amount as RC2 was.
> 
> Would that be ok?

It would be ok with me.

(In general, releasing on a day other than Friday would be nice, because
typically no one is around in IRC on Fridays if I have questions.)

Bryce