On 16 April 2016 at 04:39, Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07 at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 06:31:00PM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: >> Hi folks, >> Tanu rightly pointed out that we're almost upon the freeze date for >> 9.0, which is 22nd Apr. >> >> I know we've got a large patch backlog, so if your patches didn't make >> it, please be patient and we'll get to them. >> > > I've tried bugzilla's advanced search, filtering issues by a > severity of "blocker", but all I got was old 2012-2014 bugs. > > Maybe it's too late at night here, but how can one find the > v9.0 release blockers? (I wish to help a bit in those ..) The offer for help is definitely appreciated! I should've linked to this in the original mail: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93823 We've been using this kind of tracker meta-bug system for the last few releases, and it works well from a release management perspective. Could bump the priority to blocker once we freeze so that discoverability is better. >> If you think something is crucial for this release (critical bug fix, >> regression, etc.), please holler now. >> > > I've just re-posted the final 2 patches of the memfd patch series. > The only difference in them from v3 is a one-liner to make memfd > an opt-in feature instead of being enabled by default: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.pulseaudio.general/25718 > > There's also a small bug-fixing series posted here: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.pulseaudio.general/25425 > > (I guess patch #4 is the most important in that series, not to > let distributors complain about warnings) I'll try to take a look ath these in the next day or two. -- Arun