Wayland 1.11 release cycle kickoff

[Jonas Ådahl]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 03:27:29PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Here's our schedule[1]:
> 
>   - 1.11-alpha around May 3rd.  Major features done by this point.
> 
>   - 1.11-beta around May 17th.
> 
>   - 1.11-rc1 around May 24th.
> 
>   - 1.11.0 release around May 31st.
> 
> Any changes to protocol must be landed prior to Alpha.  New features /
> API additions should be landed by then as well.  Minor improvements and
> refactoring work is fine to land through beta, and bugfixes/docs/tests
> will be accepted up until RC1.  Only release-critical changes will be
> landed after RC1.  Exceptions to these policies can be considered on a
> case-by-case basis.
> 
> 
> 
> == Reviewing Needed ==
> 
> I'd be comfortable seeing the following features land this cycle
> (consider them Ack'd by me) but they need Pekka's review.  Most involve
> protocol changes so alpha is cut-off for them.
> 
>   1.  Cross-interface enum attributes (by Auke Booij)
>   2.  Tablet support for weston (by Peter Hutterer)
>   3.  Idle inhibition (by Bryce Harrington)
> 
> 
> == Works in Progress ==
> 
> These I haven't looked much into but might be candidates for inclusion.
> Some just need review, others are ongoing development that maybe can be
> finished up?
> 
>   1.  Various APIs for client info (by Giulio Camuffo)
>   2.  Pointer locking and confinement (by Jonas Ådahl)
>   3.  rdp misc. fixups (by David Fort)
>   4.  Viewporter (by Pekka Paalanen)
>   5.  Various remaining libweston backend config bits
> 
> If there's any urgent bits I've overlooked, let me know.  Ditto for
> anything on this list that you think needs to bake further.  I'm also
> available to do in-depth reviews on whatever, just flag 'em for my
> attention.

Even though it is a bit late for this release, something we should
consider is whether we should go forward with the "proxy wrapper"
solution to the multi thread queue race condition.

For the sake of having something explicit to discuss, I have rebased and
reworked the patches introducing proxy wrappers, and will post them
shortly. If not for this release, we should definitely aim for having a
solution for the one after.


Jonas

> 
> Bryce
> 
> 1: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2016-February/027038.html
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