Code slush starts, and 7.3 release schedule

dragoran drago01 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 01:26:34 PDT 2007


Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:19:44PM -0400, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
>   
>> On 8/1/07, Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> I'd been blocking laying out a schedule on getting the input problems
>>> sorted.  Now that 1.3.99.0 is out, I'd like to propose the following
>>> schedule:
>>>
>>> 2007-08-01: Code slush starts
>>> 2007-08-15: Code freeze starts, server-1.4-branch created
>>> 2007-08-29: Release 1.4 and 7.3
>>>
>>> Code slush meaning "apply minor fixes at will, but please get mailing
>>> list review before any major changes, including interface changes across
>>> modules".
>>>
>>> During code freeze, approval from one of ajax, daniels, or myself is
>>> necessary.  And for the 3 of us, we should get review from someone else.
>>>       
>> Can we get the input redirection code from David in for this release?
>> What exactly is blocking this?  As far as I understand, most of the
>> code is done and it's just some XInput details that needs to be
>> straightened out.  It's an important step towards a fully functional
>> composited desktop.
>>     
>
> At the moment, 'XInput details' means, 'doesn't work with extended
> events', which is certainly an issue.  I'm not sure how much time I'll
> have over the next couple of weeks (meant to be going on holiday,
> linux.conf.au paper review, the rest of 7.3 stuff), but I can definitely
> promise to review (and help with, if necessary) any patches.
>   
David any plans to fix the remaining issues in time for 7.3?



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