X.Org modules which could use some help to release

[Peter Hutterer]

On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 06:34:20PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> As you may have noticed, I've been working through the various modules to make
> releases of those with significant enough change to justify a release (i.e.
> more than just the autogen.sh cleanups & gitlab README/configure.ac updates).
> 
> There's some modules which have more than enough change that I've left for
> now for other reasons, which others could help with:
> 
> app/mkcomposecache:
>   - Does anyone actually use this?  I think the code to read the files is
>     in Xlib, but do packagers ship this to build the files?
> 
> app/twm:
>   - Needs someone to evaluate:
>     https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/twm/issues/7
>     https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/project/Xorg/list/?q=twm
>     patches in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/twm/issues
> 
> app/xkbcomp:
>   - Needs someone to evaluate:
>     https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/project/Xorg/list/?q=xkbcomp
>     https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xkbcomp/issues

working my way through those, even if it largely means closing those old
enough to attend school.
 
> app/xkbutils:
>   - Needs someone to evaluate:
>     patch in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xkbutils/issues/1

I'll stare at that tomorrow and then probably wave it through.

Cheers,
   Peter

> 
> app/xrandr:
>   - Needs someone to evaluate:
>     https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xrandr/merge_requests/1
>     https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/project/Xorg/list/?q=xrandr
> 
> app/xrestop:
>   - Are we shipping this as an X.Org project now despite the GPL license?
>   - Previous releases are on yoctoproject.org, not xorg.freedesktop.org -
>     do we care about that?
> 
> app/xresponse:
>   - I didn't even know this existed until seeing it in gitlab, but it's
>     apparently another GPL project we inherited from openedhand.
>     It looks like it's been abandoned since 2007 - does anyone use it
>     or should it just be archived now?
> 
> app/xscope:
>   - I pushed the fixes to show peer process info on Linux & Solaris.
>     Does anyone want to provide support for any other platforms before we
>     ship this?  See:
>     https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2019-February/057982.html
> 
> app/xshowdamage:
>   - This appears to be test code, never released as a tarball, but might
>     still be useful for debugging, so I don't think it should be archived.
> 
> driver/xf86-input-keyboard:
>   - Needs a FreeBSD person to figure out the correct patch to apply for:
>     https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-keyboard/issues/28
> 
> driver/xf86-video-dummy:
>   - Needs someone to evaluate:
>     https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-dummy/merge_requests/1
> 
> These I left because I believe they have maintainers to handle their releases
> (or to decide whether it's time for a release or not):
>   - app/intel-gpu-tools
>   - app/xinput
>   - driver/xf86-input-joystick
>   - driver/xf86-input-vmmouse
>   - driver/xf86-video-amdgpu
>   - driver/xf86-video-ati
>   - driver/xf86-video-cirrus
>   - driver/xf86-video-fbdev
>   - driver/xf86-video-freedreno
>   - driver/xf86-video-geode
>   - driver/xf86-video-glint
>   - driver/xf86-video-intel
>   - driver/xf86-video-mach64
>   - driver/xf86-video-omap
>   - driver/xf86-video-qxl
>   - driver/xf86-video-rendition
>   - driver/xf86-video-s3
>   - driver/xf86-video-savage
>   - driver/xf86-video-sis
>   - driver/xf86-video-trident
>   - driver/xf86-video-v4l
>   - driver/xf86-video-vesa
>   - driver/xf86-video-vmware
>   - driver/xf86-video-wsfb
>   - lib/libAppleWM
>   - lib/libxrandrutils
>   - lib/libXt
>   - test/rendercheck (besides, I don't know how to make meson-only releases)
> 
> These I skipped because we don't package them in Solaris and I don't know if
> anyone else still uses them or they should just be archived now:
>   - app/beforelight
>   - app/fdclock
>   - app/mdm
>   - app/rstart
>   - app/scripts
>   - app/xf86dga
>   - app/xfwp
>   - app/xvidtune
>   - app/xcb-demo
>   - driver/xf86-video-ark
>   - driver/xf86-video-armsoc
>   - driver/xf86-video-impact
>   - driver/xf86-video-newport
>   - driver/xf86-video-nested  (has never had a release?)
>   - driver/xf86-video-tga
>   - driver/xf86-video-tseng
>   - driver/xf86-video-xgi
>   - driver/xf86-video-xgixp
>   - lib/libWindowsWM
>   - lib/libXTrap
>   - util/gccmakedep
>   - util/install-check
> 
> (Of those, only xfwpm, xvidtune, & elographics have an entry on
>  release-monitoring.org, which is one sign of use in distros,
>  but not definitive.)
> 
> -- 
> 	-Alan Coopersmith-               alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
> 	 Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
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