Minutes from August 6 Release Wranglers call

[Roland Mainz]

Paul Anderson wrote:
[snip]
> General ssh access on fd has been disabled due to a security
> vulnernability.  Kevin is able to add access via an IP address.
> If you need access to meet commitments for the current release,
> send your IP address to Kevin (kem at freedesktop.org).

... which is difficult for people who don't have a fixed IP address (I
and a few others victims are working from home via DSL lines where the
IP address changes every 12h-24h). Right now I cannot commit anything...
;-(

[snip]
> #925: Freetype issue
>       - Everything has been checked into the tree
>       - Jim noted that this issue needs to be mentioned in the release notes
>       - Jim also mentioned that we need a way to keep track of things
>         that must be added to the release notes.

It would be nice if the workarounds added in this release to make the
FreeType module compatible to older Freetype releases get removed for
the next (R6.8.1) release to gurantee that all Xorg releases start to
work properly with CJKV locales and that the XTT extensions are finally
available across _all_ platforms.

> #964: Xprint starts to consume 100% of the CPU when it's idle
>       - Roland isn't sure what else to do on this.  Kevin asked for others
>         to help out if possible.  This is currently listed as a release
>         blocker.  We'll have to make a decision sometime next week about
>         extending the code freeze deadline or deferring some bugs to
>         the next release.

I still have no clue where this issue comes from... ;-(
My theory: It seems somewhere a timer or timeout happens (since the
issue starts exactly 2mins after the last clients has exit) and isn't
handled properly. But I can't find such a timeout value nor was the
issue present a few months ago so it is likely a recent regression,
maybe introduced with one of the new features/extensions (and just
compiling without those extensions is not possible since the build
breaks - I have listed the bugids for that below). And pulling CVS by
date (to figure out the approx. date when the problem started) doesn't
work either due CVS problems... ;-(

> #972: Xprint may try to install things in /etc when nothing outside of
>       ProjectRoot is defined
>       - Kevin has a proposed solution and will ping Roland Mainz for
>         feedback.

I have replied to Kevin's email... we have to debate what's the best
solution in this case...

[snip] 
> Recruiting other people for testing
> -----------------------------------
> Some new rpms are almost ready for people to start using.  Stuart
> was recruiting heavily yesterday at LinuxWorld.  People are working
> to get tinderbox to do more in an automated fashion to help with
> this.  Jim has been in contact with OSDL about this.

Is there a place where the *.spec files for the RPMs are stored ?

> Success criteria
> ----------------
> See the agenda for Kevin's proposed requirements for success criteria.
> This is just a proposal, please add other comments.
> 
> - Build requirements
>   - build with no host.def file
>   - build with BuildServersOnly defined as YES
>   - build with DoLoadableServer defined as NO   (initial e-mail said YES)
>   * Kevin will turn these into host.def files and update the web page
>     accordingly

There are a couple of build bustage issues which should be considered,
too:
- https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=997 ("Build failure
with |#define BuildXfixes NO|")
- https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=570 ("Build with
|#define BuildDPMS NO| fails")
- https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=993 ("Build failure
with |#define BuildXevie NO|")
- https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=906 ("CVS trunk does
not compile with |#define OptimizedCDebugFlags -g -DDEBUG|")

Another issue which cases headaches for me is
https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=961 ("Xnest crashes in
damagePaintWindow()"): Xnest doesn't seem to start anymore... ;-(

Finally:
Is it allowed to update manual pages and other documentation during the
freeze (https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=811 comes in
mind) ?

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Bye,
Roland

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