X server 1.9 release thoughts

[Daniel Stone]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 09:30:47AM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> Beyond that, one requirement that I see for merging output drivers would
> be to shorten the X server release from the current 6 months down to 3
> months or so. Otherwise I feel that the window of time between hardware
> release and driver release could become too long. I'm up for this
> cadence, but it would mean that we'd need to see major patches posted
> and reviewed in the previous release cycle so that they could be applied
> shortly after a release. I don't want to shorten the RC schedule by
> much. If ABI/API churn is an issue, we could try freezing those for the
> 'odd' releases, but I'd rather avoid that as it can artificially
> constrain development.

Er, is there no reason hardware enable (even if it's not entirely
fully-featured) can't be done in point releases?

Cheers,
Daniel
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