Minutes from August 11 Release Wranglers call

[Paul Anderson]

Release Wranglers,

The unreviewed and unspellchecked minutes from today's call:


Attendees
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Jim Gettys
Stuart Kreitman
Keith Packard
Kevin Martin
Leon Shiman
Paul Anderson


Release Status
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Kevin has updated the release status page and has started 
filling out the test matrix.  Kevin is fixing some additional
defects, and he should be completing those checkins shortly.
When that is done, he plans to put down another release
snapshot tag tonight.  He forgot to update the date in the
last snapshot, so he will start updating that from now on.

Kevin would still like to get as much testing as possible.
In the detailed test instructions, Kevin has also included
the type of information he would like people send when they
have completed testing.


Tinderbox
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Kevin asked about the progress on some of the Tinderbox
items we discussed on Monday.  Jim isn't sure if Bryce has
the access he needs yet, so he is working with Keith to
get that fixed.  (This led into a brief discussion on ssh2
access keys, but Jim now has access.)  We'll hopefully
get an update on some of the other Tinderbox issues on Friday.


Bugzilla entries
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Bugs blocking #351 (the X11R6.8 release blocker):

  #255: Kevin is working with Mike Harris on this.

  #303: PPC 64 support
        This is another patch that Mike Harris and Alan Coopersmith
        looked at and didn't raise any concerns.  This is building
        on the PPC platform at Red Hat, so Kevin is going to check it in.

  #337: Gumby
        Keith has a new image to replace it.  Keith will leave the name
        of the file the same and just change its contents. 
       
  #738: Bogus contact addresses in os/utils.c
        The builder e-mail address should be changed for each of the
        vendors, since this really is a vendor support issue.

  #855: Problem with xterm
        Keith will talk to Thomas Dickey to see if he would mind if
        someone imported his latest version of xterm into the tree.

  #922: Radeon/RENDER acceleration
        This was originally a problem with switching the console.  That
        problem has been addressed, but there is still a problem with
        context switching.  Kevin is working with Eric on this, in
        addition to the problem building w/o DRI.

  #925: freetype 2.1.8 symbols break the build
        Has everything that needs to be checked in for this actually
        been checked in?  As far as Kevin knows, this should be resolved
        at this time.

  #961: Xnest crashes in damagePaintWindow
        Kevin has a pretty good idea about what's going on here and will
        work on a fix.  Keith may take a look at this as well.  Damage
        cannot operate on Xservers that don't provide a screen pixmap
        function.  He thought about punting Xservers that don't provide
        this function, but then realized that this will take away software
        cursors.  In the end, he's going to change damage to handle servers
        that don't provide a screen pixmap. 

  #964: Xprt consumes 100% of CPU
        Roland traced it down and finally found that this is a problem
        with the audit logging.  Roland found that if he reverted a patch
        back to the X11R6.6 behavior, the problem went away.  The 
        consequence of this is that identical log messages are not folded
        together.  Kevin can't find a record of who changed this behavior.
        Nobody had a problem with reverting this behavior, since there
        is no other easy, obvious solution at the moment.

  #972: ProjectRoot installation problem
        Kevin's solution is that if nothing outside of ProjectRoot 
        is defined, he'll install it in ProjectRoot.

  #991: Composite exposes extra visuals
        Keith's fix will be to hide the visuals from the client.  The
        Composite extension will be changed to be able to use hidden
        visuals.  After further discussion, it was noted that the visuals
        aren't needed any longer.  Keith will give this some thought,
        since it could involve changing the extension by adding another
        request.

  #993: Do we want XEVIE as a separate library?
        There was some consensus on keeping it as a separate library,
        since the plan for it is to be able to be released independent
        of other libraries and be maintained separately.  Stuart K
        will take care of this.
   
  #???: Documentation bug
        Need to start thinking of changes from 6.7 to 6.8.  Kevin isn't
        going to be working on this now, since he's busy with everything
        else, but he encouraged others to start thinking about this.

 #1004: XDarwin man page on Linux systems
        It has been this way for at least 3 years.  If someone would like
        to work on this, they should feel free.  Kevin would like to
        take this off the blocker list, since it has been a problem for
        3 years - no objections.

 #1024: Japanese ctext conversion bug
	The patch needs to be reviewed.

 #1026: Xnest is missing XKB on BuildServersOnly
        Fix was included.  No objections - Kevin will check it in.

 #1029: Hard failure of socket directories cannot be chowned to root
        This is an unintended consequence of a recent fix.  Should
        we back out the fix.  One suggestion is to have a helper
        application do this.  Or, we could back out the change and 
        go back to X11R6.7 behavior.

 #1032: Damage causes rootless XDarwin to crash 
        This is hopefully the same as #961
        


Kevin will continue to send daily "blocker bug" status updates until
we release.


Next meeting:
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Friday, August 13.  Same time/number:
  11:00EDT, 8:00PDT, 5:00PM CDT
  Access numbers:
    1-866-639-4713 (toll free)
    1-574-948-0365 (toll)

Best regards,

-paul