Re: X.Org Foundation release plan [draft]

Eric Anholt wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 09:05, Stuart Kreitman wrote:
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>>Eric Anholt wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 08:30, Stuart Kreitman wrote:
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>>>>Kevin:
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>>>>I believe you should enter:
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>>>>Stuart Kreitman:
>>>>- integration of Composite to DAMAGE-XFIXES branch
>>>>- update XEVIE to 1.1
>>>>- update of D-X branch to head and finally into head
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>>>I don't see any need to update D-X branch to head.  I don't expect that
>>>there would be any conflicts with merging it from the branch as-is, or I
>>>can merge it from one of my composite integration trees.
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>>motivated by fear of breaking head or being broken by head. I have 
>>background work in xevie and composite
>>which are needed in their own rightby otheres, but always open to 
>>suggestions.
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>>>I mean writing a generic wrapper for Composite that doesn't require any
>>>knowledge of Composite by the DDX, which is needed for nvidia support. 
>>>I understand Sun had already done this work, but getting that from them
>>>was turning out to be hard from what I understand, so I'm implementing
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>>"them" is me and Deron Johnson. the only problem in getting the bits is 
>>my schedule. Anyway, let's not duplicate effort.
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>So, what is your schedule?  I hadn't heard anything about you guys
>actually actively pushing the Composite bits into X.Org, and I had heard
>that Keith had tried to get the bits from you in the past and failed,
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It is my top priority starting this past monday. I have been delayed by 
getting damage-xfixes working in our own x-server
with gnome-magnification and other integrations

To set the record straight, It's a misstatement that Keith or anyone 
"had tried to get the bits... and failed". I simply haven't been ready.
hope to be soon.

skk

>which was why I've been working on it myself.  I'd like to get Composite
>in the tree soon so we can start finding any issues with it, and so I
>can get to work on XAA issues that need resolving with respect to
>Render.  Using xcompmgr will help increase the variety of my Render
>usage a lot, for finding hidden bugs.
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>All I would need is the wrapper.  I'm happy to do merging of other bits
>necessary if it would take additional time for you to dig them out of
>your tree.
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