X server 1.9 release thoughts

[Peter Hutterer]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 09:30:47AM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> First off, thanks to everyone involved in the 1.8 release; it was a
> pleasure to work with you. I'm hoping everyone else is as happy as I am
> about our new release process, it seemed to me that we saw a lot more
> active review and discussion about proposed patches this time around.
> 
> For version 1.9, I'm planning on doing things in much the same way, if
> people have suggestions on how we can improve things, please post them
> so we can get things settled before we get too far into the release.
> 
> Ok, so now for the details about the 1.9 release itself.
> 
> First off, I'd like to get a start on making things easier to build
> for people interested in testing the server or new drivers. I'm still
> interested in getting drivers pulled back into the server itself at some
> point, but it seems like an important and trivial first step will be to
> merge all of the protocol headers into one package. I'll get started on
> that and post a pointer to a merged repository for review.

I'm just replying here so we've got my opinion public and archived rather
than spread across several IRC conversations.