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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 05:52:14PM +0100, Didier Roche wrote:
> Le 06/02/2013 07:41, Didier Roche a écrit :
> >Le 05/02/2013 20:18, Bryce Harrington a écrit :
> >>Hi Didier,
> >>
> >>I wanted to make sure we have a closed loop on this issue.
> >>
> >>As per UDS plans we're looking to update to xserver 1.14.  One of the
> >>changes is that our pointer barriers work is now included upstream, so
> >>we can drop the ubuntu PB patch.  However, the upstream version is
> >>slightly different from what we had before, and so some changes will be
> >>needed to Unity in order to work with it.
> >>
> >>We can provide snapshot builds of the xserver 1.14 pre-release in a PPA,
> >>but do you know of someone on the Unity side of things who would work on
> >>adding support for 1.14 style barriers?  Do you have an escalation path
> >>for key issues like this?
> >
> >Hey Bryce,
> >Argh, we just had our catchup meeting with the Unity team
> >yesterday, missed by this >< ! ;)
> >
> >So, the unity 13.04 team is really small (3 persons), and we
> >didn't plan for that, but let's see (adding Thomas and Stephen in
> >CC) if they can find some resources so that we can update to the
> >new xserver 1.14 and ensuring we can work with the latest version
> >of pointer barriers.
> >
> >Thomas, Stephen, if the Xorg team is providing a ppa with the new
> >pieces, do you think we can sneak on the schedule to dedicate some
> >time to be able to work with the last xserver we are going to ship
> >in ubuntu? AFAIK (last time I looked at this part of the code,
> >last year) the barrier code is pretty trivial on the unity side,
> >so it shouldn't take an awful period of time.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Didier
>
>
> Just a quick followup after discussing with Thomas:
> it would be great to have the diff in term of protocol between our
> patch and the new version of it so that we can see if it's cheaper
> (due to the restrained resource) to either revert the upstream fix
> and reapply our patch or just go the new road.
>
> Do you mind providing us that so that we can estimate the needed work?
> Thanks,
> Didier

Sure, let me do some investigation.

Bryce