X server 1.9 release thoughts

[Stephane Marchesin]

2010/4/11 Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net>:
> On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 09:30 -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.
>
> I still think restricting write access to xserver master to a single
> person has been a mistake, choking existing momentum without generating
> new momentum, or making master broken less of the time — rather the
> opposite: There were a number of cases where breakage wasn't fixed for
> days because nobody else was allowed to push the fixes.
>

I agree here - it has been adding extra administrative overhead for
everyone at the detriment of quality. If we want to merge even _more_
code into the server (i.e. drivers), things are not going to get
better.

Stephane