State of the 1.9 release

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Thu May 20 10:59:04 PDT 2010


On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 23:42 -0700, Keith Packard wrote:

>  * Reimplementation of devPrivates
> 
>    The first of these two patches is huge and was done manually,
>    so there may well be errors. I'd love to see review, but failing
>    that, I'm very tempted to just get a few Tested-by: lines and push
>    expecting that we'll catch any latent bugs with the asserts() that
>    litter the new code.

I'll give this a closer look today or tomorrow.  It looked plausible to
begin with, but it definitely deserves a second look.

> We've currently got 11 bugs on the release blocker:

I'll start pounding through these too.  Thankfully I'm down to only
fighting one release fire now instead of three, but that one is still a
doozy.

- ajax
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