[cairo] Time for a release ?

[Stuart Axon]

Is Meson the preferred way of building Cairo these days ?
After briefly looking at the script it's reassuring it seems to do quite a bit, though I noticed that LATEST still points at 1.16.0 for some reason so maybe something isn't quite right.
Does Cairo have CI anywhere?   
I guess the tests not all passing is still an issue there?

This seems like something people with more sporadic free time might be able to help with enabling.
Is it worth looking into funding options to support admin work like this ?
   On Friday, November 13, 2020, 5:51:31 PM GMT, Bryce Harrington <bryce at bryceharrington.org> wrote:  
 
 Yes, that document is kept up to date with the release procedure,
although it may need some changes for meson.

If you guys would like, I can look at rolling a new devel release.
Is the codebase in a releasable state currently?

Fwiw, I've not been involved in the graphics field lately; it may make
sense, if another established Cairo contributor has
time/experience/inclination to take over the release management duties I
can provide training.

Bryce

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 04:45:45PM +0100, the Adib wrote:
> Maybe Bryce Harrington can assist? Adib.
> 
> Heiko Lewin <hlewin at gmx.de> schrieb am Fr., 13. Nov. 2020, 12:57:
> 
> > There is some documentation, but I don't know how accurate it is:
> > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/blob/master/RELEASING
> >
> > No idea who has got the permissions/accounts to do a release or how to get
> > them.
> >
> >
> > On 11/13/20 12:31 PM, Stuart Axon wrote:
> >
> > This would definitely not be ideal downstream at pycairo, which is very
> > much alive.
> >
> >
> > Is the process for building / testing / releasing cairo documented
> > anywhere ?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thursday, November 12, 2020, 9:07:07 PM GMT, Matthias Clasen
> > <matthias.clasen at gmail.com> <matthias.clasen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Ok, last call:
> >
> > Is there still somebody around in the cairo community who is willing and
> > able to make a release ?
> >
> > I can roll a 1.18 tarball if that is what it takes, and I can put it in
> > the same place as GTK releases
> > (on
> > download.gnome.org), but I cannot upload it to the usual place for cairo
> > releases (on freedesktop.org).
> >
> > If I do that, though, the NEWS file in that tarball will come with a big
> > note that cairo is dead, and advise
> > users to look for alternatives. The current situation is untenable.
> >
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