Which stream to test for 8.2 or have we officially branched now?

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Sat Aug 23 19:13:14 EDT 2008


Am 24.08.2008 um 00:04 schrieb C. Scott Ananian:

> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Ton van Overbeek <tvoverbeek at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>> Noticed that idle suspend was enabled again in recent joyrides.
>> pgf replied that this was intentional since we now have a revived 8.2
>> build stream.
>> But I have not seen any announcement yet on branching/freezing etc.
>> What is the status and which builds should we be testing for the  
>> 8.2 release?
>
> Michael and I have been working on creating an acceptable 8.2 test
> candidate.  There have been 8.2-753, 8.2-754, 8.2-755, and 8.2-756
> builds, but none of them have (so far) made it through initial QA here
> at 1cc.  In particular, we tried to turn of X shared memory in the 8.2
> stream to work around some of the known X corruption problems in
> Browse, Etoys, etc, but this turned out to cause more problems than it
> solved.  In 755 and 756 we reverted that and turned off EXA instead.

The Etoys display corruption was solved in 754 but reportedly is back  
in 756:

https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8008

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