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Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development


Valve open-source graphics software engineer Mike Blumenkrantz is well known in the Linux community for his work on the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver code, various Mesa driver optimizations, and creative writing on his blog

Valve open-source graphics software engineer Mike Blumenkrantz is well known in the Linux community for his work on the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver code, various Mesa driver optimizations, and creative writing on his blog. While a protocol is still within the "experimental" folder there could be breaking changes allowed but to serve for more iterative development before being ready for staging or stable. Mike has written a blog post today outlining the Wayland protocol development headaches as they stand currently and his hopes for helping to address the situation moving forward.

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