Upcoming release

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 12:13:12 +0200
Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 10:05:47 -0600
> Derek Foreman <derek.foreman.samsung at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 1/18/19 4:20 PM, Derek Foreman wrote:  
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > It's been quite some time since our last weston release, and there's
> > > been some discussion of getting the next one out in the January to March
> > > timeframe (this would be the last release to have an autotools build, btw).
> > > 
> > > Does anyone have objections to an early February freeze and a March
> > > release?  Anyone with large series near completion?
> > > 
> > > Also, I'd like to float the idea of removing the fbdev backend for this
> > > release (or the next).  The bulk of the interesting features target the
> > > drm backend, and it feels like fbdev can sometimes be a bit of a pain to
> > > update when changes are required elsewhere.  Any strong opinions either way?    
> > 
> > Ok, I've heard no complaints, and we really are overdue...
> > 
> > There's been some reasonable pushback against dropping fbdev
> > immediately, so let's leave that in for this release.
> > 
> > As to the release schedule, maybe:
> > February 1, Alpha
> > February 15, Beta
> > March 1, RC1
> > March 8 as a first potential final release date.
> > 
> > Is this too soon to enter freeze?  It's not a lot of warning.
> > 
> > Wayland has had enough changes that I think another joint release makes
> > sense.  
> 
> Hi,
> 
> here are my picks from the pending reviews. I don't mean that we should
> wait on them unless noted explicitly below.
> 
> Wayland:
> 
> I reviewed https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/49379/ and it needs
> work.
> 
> https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/38564/ is probably something I
> should look into to have in the alpha.

That one landed.

> 
> Weston:
> 
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/merge_requests/66 is
> something I'd like to land, but it needs a small touch.
> 
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/merge_requests/62 is
> probably important enough, that I'd be willing to postpone the release
> until we get that in. Looks like it is very close.
> 
> Since Meson is a new thing,
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/merge_requests/85 would
> probably be nice to decide on.
> 
> Getting NEWS files would be cool too. This was just the first attempt
> that got useful feedback but I never had the time to take it further:
> https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/16218/
> 

I took a look at the Weston changes since 5.0.0 release:

- the exported symbols from weston executable have changed, backwards
  incompatible, but this probably shouldn't count against libweston
  major

- struct weston_head gained a new member

- struct weston_compositor gained new members

- struct weston_surface gained a new member

I guess these are reasons enough to bump the major to 6, right?

Would have been interesting to release a 5.1.0, too bad. :-)


Thanks,
pq
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