Revert of my compositing rework patches

Vlad Zahorodnii vladzzag at gmail.com
Wed Jan 15 18:10:08 GMT 2020


Hi,

On 1/15/20 7:28 PM, Roman Gilg wrote:
> Reasons for reverting are:
> * The Nvidia swap event patch hasn't yet landed to optimize in that case.

If my memory serves me well, someone suggested you to commandeer that
revision and Fredrik didn't object to that.

> * Some minor regressions had been crept up and there might be more.

Well, they can always be fixed. ;-)

> * My patches weren't formally accepted when I landed them, another
> maintainer complained about that.
> * I don't see a positive future for the KWin project as it is currently
> organized on a fundamental level. Because of this I don't want to maintain
> these large code changes ongoing.

Yes, we need to do something our workflow. Have you seen David's
workflow proposal?

> Simple yes/no from the other two maintainers is enough. If they both want
> to keep the compositing rework patches in one of them is responsible for
> acting on related bug reports afterwards. If not both agree there is no
> consensus on the compositing rework and I will revert the patches before
> tomorrow 10:00am Berlin time so they don't go into the 5.18 beta. In case
> of subsequent issues because of the revert itself I will act on these
> myself.

If you think it's better to revert these patches, then let's do it.

Cheers,
Vlad


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