Re: [gentoo-dev] Project summaries

[Rémi Cardona]

Le 06/05/2009 08:49, Christian Faulhammer a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> any project lead/member can post an answer to this mail for a status
> report:

X11 Herd Status Update

Short term or recently done :
  - 1.5.3-r5 went stable (I'm sure y'all noticed)
  - there will be another 1.5 stable server within a few weeks
  - 1.6.x will go into ~arch pretty soon
  - alpha is pretty much the only arch that doesn't have 1.5 keyword but 
thanks to frequent poking, things should change pretty soon
  - 1.3 and 1.4 will get p.masked as soon as alpha and arm stabilize 1.5.3,
  - 1.3 will get treecleaned during the summer, 1.4 maybe a bit later...
  - the X11 overlay now has support for the nouveau driver and Gallium 
(thanks to a few external but essential contributors)

Medium term :
  - libxcb 1.2 will be moved to portage once we figure out a sane way to 
handle the disappearance of libxcb-x11.so. For those who haven't heard 
or seen what happens during the upgrade, let's just say that the upgrade 
from expat 1.95 to 2.0 was a walk in the park compared to this.
  - continue cleaning up useless libs and protos

Longer term :
  - major Docs overhaul, what we have now is a complete mess. Any help 
with this is greatly appreciated. See [1] for a short todo list.
  - try to keep up with upstream X, even if it means upsetting some 
users. Actually forcing folks to upgrade to 1.5 has been very 
beneficial, a lot of bugs were uncovered and reported upstream.


Intel Driver Status Update

  - 2.6.3 is the current stable
  - 2.7.0 is still p.masked, 2.7.1 will likely go in ~arch when it's out
  - The next stable driver will probably be 2.8 once xorg-server 1.6 is 
in portage and deemed stable enough.
  - The upcoming 2.8 branch will have a lot less code and options (no 
more DRI1, XAA, EXA, ...), making it easier to maintain and to use.

Cheers,

Rémi