wayland-protocols scope and governance

[Christopher James Halse Rogers]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 16:21, Jonas Ådahl <jadahl at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 08:13:58PM +0000, Daniel Stone wrote:
>>  Hi,
>> 
>>  On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 at 16:12, Simon Ser <contact at emersion.fr 
>> <mailto:contact at emersion.fr>> wrote:
>>  > This document governs the maintenance of wayland-protocols and 
>> serves to outline
>>  > the broader process for standardization of protocol extensions in 
>> the Wayland
>>  > ecosystem.
>> 
>>  OK, we're approaching the nine-month anniversary of this 
>> discussion. I
>>  think it would be good to merge it before it would've been born.
>> 
>>  We seem to have a unanimous set of agreed-upon initial members with
>>  defined points of contact (listed below). : EFL, Enlightenment, GTK,
>>  KWin, Mutter, Qt, Weston, wlroots (also as a proxy for the wider
>>  phosh/Sway/way-cooler/etc projects using wlroots).
>> 
>>  I think there's a good case to be made for adding Chromium/Exosphere
>>  to the list, since they are actively involved in protocol 
>> development
>>  and a few of their protocols have already found their way upstream.
>>  Other major users include GStreamer, Kodi, and VLC, but it doesn't
>>  seem like they participate too much in protocol development, and 
>> it's
>>  not clear to me whether or not they'd want to be involved. I don't
>>  have a strong opinion on whether or not they should be in the
>>  membership group. Similarly, you could add Firefox and perhaps even
>>  Mesa to that list; I remember others suggesting GLFW, SDL, maybe 
>> even
>>  imgui, mpv?
>> 

We at Mir would also be interested; developing and pushing extensions 
has not (yet) hit the top of our TODO list, but we have Thoughts, 
experience, and a place to implement them :).

This can be delayed until we actually have the cycles for serious 
review and proposal, though.

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