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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: [Intel-gfx] [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 2.99.917
From:       René_Rebe <rene () exactcode ! com>
Date:       2016-01-26 20:51:10
Message-ID: 7234594E-FB0B-4CC4-A36D-1028FE197E8D () exactcode ! com
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On Jan 26, 2016, at 19:03, Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de> wrote:

> Am Wed, 6 May 2015 22:02:57 +0200
> schrieb Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>:
> 
> > On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 14:47:58 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > 
> > > Snapshot 2.99.917 (2014-12-21)
> > > ==============================
> > > 3 months drifted by whilst I looked elsewhere for bugs.. The
> > > highlight of bugs fixed here are a couple of workarounds required
> > > for Broadwell and making sure that the rasterisation code is
> > > symmetric under inversions. However, as a couple of crashers
> > > slipped through into 2.99.916 (though not actual regressions in
> > > 2.99.916 per se) and 3 months have passed, we should make one more
> > > snapshot before an imminent release. 
> > How imminent is imminent?  This driver hasn't had a proper release in
> > over a year and a half, this is getting ridiculous...
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Julien
> 
> What happened to the "release early/release often" rule? It has pushed
> OSS much faster forward than it now goes.
> 
> Distributions are forced to randomly pick some git snapshot. Often it's
> not too much stuff broken. No stable release or branch we can rely on.
> 
> Is Intel not able to maintain its own device driver in a usable way?

+1

https://t2-project.org/packages/xf86-video-intel.html

	René
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