From: Eric A. <et...@lc...> - 2004-08-13 22:45:45
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On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 11:23, Brian Paul wrote: > Kevin E Martin wrote: > > On today's release wranglers call, we decided to move the code freeze > > deadline until 11AM EDT, Monday 16 Aug 2004. This will allow several of > > us to finish fixing the remaining bugs. > > > > After the code freeze, the first release candidate tag will be made for > > people to test against. The volunteers who signed up to build release > > packages should plan to make new packages available after tree is > > tagged. > > > > We also decided that, after Monday's code freeze, nothing is to be > > checked into the tree without the approval of the release manager (me). > > All release blocker bug fixes that you want to have considered for this > > release will need to be entered into bugzilla (with associated patch). > > I've been kind of out of touch with DRI / X development lately, but it > looks like the current Mesa CVS trunk and the DRI tree's DRM modules > will be going into this release. Is that correct? > > The Mesa CVS trunk doesn't constitute a normal Mesa release yet. I > was planning on eventually wrapping up the trunk as the 6.1 > (development) release. The last Mesa stable release was 6.0.1 and bug > fixes relative to it are on the mesa_6_0_branch branch in CVS. I > don't think any of the DRI driver developers have been putting > anything into that branch though. > > That said, I _think_ the Mesa CVS trunk is fairly stable code at this > point. Perhaps I should make the 6.1 release ASAP, just so things are > somewhat synchronized. Comments? At this point, given that the X.Org tree is still monolithic, our Mesa usage is somewhat independent of Mesa releases in my view. I chose to integrate the development branch because of the great advances made in the DRI drivers in general (though we have some issues to resolve still, as bugzilla shows), though I was concerned about using something that wasn't blessed as a release. I would like to continue using the current codebase, though we should probably make it clear in glxinfo (for example) that this is a development branch we're using. That is, unless a release were to happen from the head branch the next couple of days. -- Eric Anholt et...@lc... http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org |