X server 1.9 release thoughts

[Stephane Marchesin]

2010/4/11 Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com>:
> On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:02:27 +1000, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd have to agree here, I think we need to do 1.9 following the same
>> process again and refine it a lot more.
>
> Yeah, developing the release process is almost as hard as developing the
> code.
>

The release process, although not on regular schedule, used to work
fine. Right now it seems you are developing something similar to the
old XFree86 days...

>> Keith there were large stages during the 1.8 process where master was
>> broken and you weren't tasked to fixing it, and people were relying on
>> stuff from the list or other peoples branches.
>
> Would it be better to just pull broken stuff out of master at these
> times? There are big portions of the server that I can't frankly test or
> fix, like exa, as I have no hardware which uses that code.
>

Yes that is the point exactly, for example with EXA and likewise for
drivers this schemes provides no advantage at all, and there is no way
a single person can be relevant for code review/merge for the whole
server.

Stephane