Wayland 1.11 release cycle kickoff

[Peter Hutterer]

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)

hmm, I never replied to this and now it's past the May 3rd deadline anyway.
I'm not sure about the tablet weston patches. tablet support is a
rather specialised use-case that requires a few extra things to be really
useful (e.g. the correct tablet-to-screen mapping, ability to calibrate,
etc). And the tablet pad support isn't in yet either. So I don't think
including tablet support in weston at this point is a good idea, and I'm not
sure about the long-term use of it - unless libweston starts being
commonplace and we have multiple compositors that need it.

comments?

Cheers,
   Peter


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