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Wayland Looks To Do Away With Alpha & Beta Releases


Ongoing Wayland release manager Simon Ser has proposed doing away with alpha and beta releases moving forward as a sign of Wayland's maturity and to ease the release management process.

"With years passing by, development in the main Wayland repository has slowed down quite a bit, activity has moved over to wayland-protocols and compositors. I'm also not sure about the value of all of these pre-releases: historically they've been used to push the last features over the fence before the RCs, but it's easy enough to talk and coordinate over the bits that we want to wait on for the release. So far no objections have been raised to this Wayland proposal.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.

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