[PATCH] First round of updates for X11R7.6 release notes

[Dan Nicholson]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
> ---
>  general/ReleaseNotes.xml |  344 +++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
>  1 files changed, 139 insertions(+), 205 deletions(-)
>
> HTML formattted output incorporating these changes has been posted to:
>     http://people.freedesktop.org/~alanc/7.6-draft-ReleaseNotes.html
>
> Summarizing a year's worth of changes down to highlights that are visible
> to users or important to builders/packagers is hard.
>
> Please let me know if you see anything that should be mentioned that I missed,
> anything I deleted that I shouldn't have, anything I described poorly, or
> anything else in general that should be changed.
>
> There are no updates yet to the credits list - I need to run the scripts
> to gather that data from the git repos still, so ignore those for now.
>
> Also, the HTML output is not the prettiest in the world.  Stylesheet patches
> will also be considered if you think you can make it look better.  (The XSL
> & CSS stylesheets used can be found in the xorg-sgml-doctools module.)
>
> diff --git a/general/ReleaseNotes.xml b/general/ReleaseNotes.xml
> index 3bec5de..eb02510 100644
> --- a/general/ReleaseNotes.xml
> +++ b/general/ReleaseNotes.xml
> @@ -86,10 +86,11 @@
>     </para>
>
>     <para>
> -      We encourage you to submit bug fixes and enhancements to
> +      We encourage you to report bugs using
>       freedesktop.org's <ulink url="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/">
>        bug tracking system</ulink> using the xorg product, and to
> -      discuss them on <email>xorg at lists.freedesktop.org</email>.
> +      submit bug fixes and enhancements to
> +      <email>xorg-devel at lists.x.org</email>.
>       More details on patch submission and review process are available on the
>       <ulink
>        url="http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/SubmittingPatches">
> @@ -100,7 +101,7 @@
>  The release numbering is based on the original MIT X numbering system.
>  X11 refers to the version of the network protocol that the X Window
>  system is based on: Version 11 was first released in 1988 and has been
> -stable for 21 years, with only upward compatible additions to the core X
> +stable for 22 years, with only upward compatible additions to the core X
>  protocol, a record of stability envied in computing.  Formal releases of
>  X started with X version 9 from MIT; the first commercial X products
>  were based on X version 10.  The MIT X Consortium and its successors,
> @@ -156,82 +157,52 @@ The next section describes what is new in the latest version
>       <itemizedlist>
>         <listitem>
>          <para>
> -           <firstterm>Multi-Pointer X (<acronym>MPX</acronym>)</firstterm>
> -           provides the user with multiple independent mouse cursors and
> -           multiple independent keyboard foci.  Each cursor is a true system
> -           cursor and different pointers can operate in multiple applications
> -           simultaneously.
> +           <firstterm>Xorg configuration directories</firstterm> are
> +           used to allow fragments of the X server configuration to be
> +           delivered in individual files.   For instance, the input device
> +           driver matching rules previously provided in HAL
> +           <filename>.fdi</filename> files are now provided as
> +           <filename>.conf</filename> files in a
> +           <filename>xorg.conf.d</filename> directory.

If you're mentioning the input driver matching, I think it would be
worth a "See the INPUTCLASS section in xorg.conf(5)" or something like
that. It's actually two features, so you could break this into two
paragraphs: xorg.conf.d and InputClass. Might not be worth it, though.

--
Dan