Wayland 1.15 & Weston 4.0 Officially Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wayland 1.15 & Weston 4.0 Officially Released

Today marks the long-awaited debut of Wayland 1.15 and the Weston 4.0 reference compositor...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wayland-1.15-Weston-4.0

[zanny]

What I'm wondering with Wayland is when it will get a protocol extension to notify clients of fractional scaling factors. KDE is still stuck with only 2x scaling on Wayland and Gnome is using what is effectively a hack to get fractional scalars (do the 2x scaling and then downscale it to a fraction).

[dlocklear01]

How many man-hours does it take a distro to properly update wayland from 1.14 to 1.15 ?

[dlocklear01]

Is it easy to update by developer

[dlocklear01]

Can I unistall X

[lucrus]

Can I unistall X

Of course you can. It's just a matter of

# apt-get remove x11-common x11-utils x11-apps

for Debian and other Debian based distros...

[Vistaus]

How many man-hours does it take a distro to properly update wayland from 1.14 to 1.15 ?

I'm not a distro packager, but I would assume that in most cases it depends on the amount of testers. If there are 20 testers and they all report back with no or little issues (which I expect, as the Wayland team has already solved most, if not all, major bugs before releasing the final version of 1.15) that can be solved quickly, then the upgrade will be pushed to the stable repositories of distro xyz in very short time. But if there are less testers (or there's an exceptional case where there are more regressions than initially assumed), then it will take some more time to ensure the upgrade is going to go well.

[browseria]

How many man-hours does it take a distro to properly update wayland from 1.14 to 1.15 ?

It's in Fedora 28 already, so 48 hours, max?

[Faalagorn]

Small typo:

[…]living in mesa[…]

Should be Mesa.