[cairo] Upcoming release schedule

[Bryce Harrington]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 09:35:26PM +0930, Adrian Johnson wrote:
> On 14/06/17 11:18, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 04:44:38PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> >> On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 02:43:00PM +0200, Uli Schlachter wrote:
> >>> On 09.06.2017 09:20, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> >>>> Just a head's up that I'll be rolling a new snapshot next week.
> >>>>
> >>>> There's not too terribly much on trunk, but it's been 6 months so figure
> >>>> we're due.  This'll just be a quickie snapshot, version 1.15.6.  I plan
> >>>> on posting it by Tuesday.
> >>>>
> >>>> While I'm at it, I can also roll stable bugfix point releases for the
> >>>> 1.14.x and 1.12.x trees, although there are currently no commits on
> >>>> either branch.  If you have bugfix patches suitable for inclusion in the
> >>>> stable releases please either cherrypick them to one or both branches,
> >>>> or flag the patches for me so I can cp them.  I plan to cut the releases
> >>>> for these by Thursday.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for handling these!
> >>>
> >>> I cherry-picked my recent fix to the 1.14 branch.
> >>
> >> Cool thanks.
> >>
> >>> However, the last 1.12
> >>> release was in 2014 and I do not see why a new release from that branch
> >>> should be done, so I skipped that.
> >>
> >> Yeah, fair enough.  I am figuring that stuff cp'able to 1.14 may also
> >> apply to 1.12 without change, so opportunity cost of a point release
> >> there could be low.  I know it's old, but I also know there are still
> >> users of the old releases -- cairo snapshots exist in various web
> >> browser, etc. trees.  Anyway, I'll play it by ear whether to do 1.12,
> >> thanks for giving it consideration.
> >>
> >>> I'm not sure if just this one patch is worth a release. I see some
> >>> commits from others (Adrian?) that might be worth cherry-picking as
> >>> well, but I don't have the time to look too closely at this currently.
> >>
> >> I'd spotted a few other patches in addition to yours I thought could be
> >> picked easily, which I'll do today or tomorrow as time permits.
> >> Admittedly this release is going to be pretty light.
> > 
> > Uli, your XSync patch looks like it might be pertinent to include?
> > 
> > Other than that there's a couple doc updates relating to bug #99094
> > 
> > All the above cp cleanly to 1.12.
> > 
> > I've not had a chance to look close enough at Adrian's patches either;
> > at least some are building atop the pdf feature work that isn't in the
> > 1.14 tree but I think some could be worth inclusion.  Advice would be
> > appreciated.
> 
> The following are bug fixes that don't depend on new feature work:
> 
> ebdb59f836d2011f0f193b432114dfde68c40c6a
> 87491030e4a8c77c386d1e9bcc0473513d039907
> 5cd14e4a2b6d6f65344561384c6b3859b04a6eb4
> bc3b4b5377a92d1a1ede0a73996cf7d1b931f9aa
> f8cf7d00a3334d72f0dc635ea740b0b3dfe6e15c
> c8c48714a22d42314217ef40ecd62d9dd2384562
> 9aab4083b89f9c3c903a31c33b2c714c97677b0c
> 511777c60ded59ae9b0d76f1df422fbd4dbcb4e3

Hi Adrian, thanks for this list it will be very useful.
However, I'm not spotting these SHAs in the repo?

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/commit/?id=ebdb59f836d2011f0f193b432114dfde68c40c6a
 --> gives 'bad commit reference'

Thanks,
Bryce
 
> There is also this bug that I had forgotten about:
> 
> https://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2017-March/027898.html
> 
> 
> > 
> > Bryce
> >