Compositor status

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi all,

Ok, I removed the compositor from CVS for now, doesn't mean it won't be
put back if I can come up with something quickly.

It's worth noting that X.org 6.8.0 is not only released, but 6.8.1...

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 20:55, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> >>>I would vote for an alpha release, some other devs would agree
> >>>probably :)
> >>>
> >>
> >>yes... i tend to think it's pretty important that we get an alpha out.  
> >>i don't see why the compositor can't wait until afterwards.  it can be 
> >>disabled by default until it's considered stable.
> > 
> > 
> > I would tend to agree. Just one thing, if it's not in the alpha, it
> > won't be in 4.2 and it should wait for xfce 4.4.
> > 
> > Anything that is not in the alpha/beta release cycle won't be in the
> > final 4.2 release.
> > 
> > Now, with more than a 1 year release cycle, it means that we won't get
> > the feature in xfce before mid 2006 and by that time, other DE will have
> > it for long.
> > 
> 
> Like everyone else (including you I presume) I'm in two minds about 
> this. Getting an alpha out is good, but staying without support for 
> compositing while everyone else has it, is bad.
> 
> Two new facts have entered the equation: 1) Composite extension is still 
> very buggy, 2) getting support into xfwm4 takes more time.
> 
> With that in mind I think we should probably go ahead and release the 
> alpha next week and postpone composite support until 4.4. People who 
> can't live without composite support can still use xcompmgr.
> 
> Afterwards we can have a discussion about how to shorten our release 
> cycle. Not allowing us to add features to 4.2 is a good start ;-)
> 
> I do think it is important to make the switch to bugzilla before the 
> alpha release. Brian, Auke, any ETA on that?
> 
> 	Jasper
> 
> PS
> If we're not going to add feature, we might just as well call it a beta 
> release. It is pretty stable already.
> 
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