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[Brandon Schaefer <brandon.schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13-03-06 04:38 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:58:32AM -0500, Stephen M. Webb wrote:
> > On 02/06/2013 01:41 AM, Didier Roche wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Brandon Schaefer of the Unity maintenance team will be working on this.  I've forwarded the current information to him,
> > please make sure he gets included in ongoing updates.
>
> Hi guys, thanks especially to Brandon for working on a fix for this.
>
> I don't know if we're officially still doing 13.04 or not, but in either
> case we've decided just to keep things simple for all of us and stick
> with 1.13 for a bit longer, including in any 13.04 release.
>
> Partly this is due to uncertainty over getting tegra and fglrx updates,
> and partly general concern over avoiding disruption to everyone.  Also,
> one outcome of UDS is that Dell does not plan to ship 12.04.3, so the
> importance of having xserver 1.14 in 13.04 for HWE purposes becomes
> moot.
>
> We'll hold off on inclusion of 1.14 probably in the rolling release
> until May or so, and keep it in the x-staging PPA for the time being.
>
> Thanks,
> Bryce

Hey,

Thanks for the update. Sounds good, Ill keep my branch up with trunk 
unity (which should make things a bit easier).

Cheers,
Brandon Schaefer