Plan for an Xwayland 23.2 release

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi all,

There are changes in Xwayland that I would like to see landed as part
of another Xwayland 23.2 release this year, as those could not make it
on time for 23.1, namely libEI support (now that libEI 1.0 was
released), and possibly a few other changes:

- Add EI support
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/975
- Implement wp_tearing_control_v1
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/665

The latter unfortunately needs a new release of xorgproto because
2023.1 was missing a version bump for the Present proto, yikes!

- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/xorgproto/-/merge_requests/75

I plan to make an xorgproto release with that fix today or tomorrow.

It would be a good time to (re)consider the GLAMOR fixes that have
been pending for some time:

- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests?label_name[]=glamor

Thanks
Olivier

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi all,

On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 11:01 AM Olivier Fourdan <ofou...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> There are changes in Xwayland that I would like to see landed as part
> of another Xwayland 23.2 release this year, as those could not make it
> on time for 23.1, namely libEI support (now that libEI 1.0 was
> released), and possibly a few other changes:
>
> - Add EI support
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/975
> - Implement wp_tearing_control_v1
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/665
>

Both merge requests have now landed, so I'd like to start the process.

For this purpose, I've created a new milestone "Xwayland-23.2.0":
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/milestones/16

And pushed the preparation work in a merge request:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/1132

(** Not ** to be merged until the branch for xwayland 23.2 is created!)

As for the schedule, I would like to propose the following:

* July 19th, 2023: Xwayland 23.2.0 RC1
* August 2nd, 2023: Xwayland 23.2.0 RC2
* August 16th, 2023: Xwayland 23.2.0

Cheers
Olivier

[Michel Dänzer]

Sounds great to me. Hopefully we can merge https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/1131 before cutting the branch, assuming no major issues with it come up in the meantime.


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[Olivier Fourdan]

Hey Michel,

On Fri, Jul 7, 2023 at 5:16 PM Michel Dänzer <mic...@daenzer.net> wrote:
>
> Sounds great to me. Hopefully we can merge https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/1131 before cutting the branch, assuming no major issues with it come up in the meantime.

Yes, I have that one in mind :)

Cheers
Olivier