From c8696e3db8beeb8838354d21c95d01636eaa5211 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Ser Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 18:04:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add status update 60 --- content/blog/2024-01-21-status-update-60.md | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 71 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/blog/2024-01-21-status-update-60.md diff --git a/content/blog/2024-01-21-status-update-60.md b/content/blog/2024-01-21-status-update-60.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a9d0ac1 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2024-01-21-status-update-60.md @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ ++++ +date = "2024-01-21T00:00:00+02:00" +title = "Status update, January 2024" +slug = "status-update-60" +lang = "en" +tags = ["status update"] ++++ + +Hi! This month has been pretty hectic due to the [SourceHut network outage]. +We've all in the staff team invested a lot of time and energy to minimize the +downtime as much as possible. Thankfully things have settled down now, there +are still a lot of follow-up tasks to complete but with less urgency. I'm +really grateful for the community's reaction, everybody had been very +understanding and supportive. Thank you! + +In other SourceHut news, I've been working on [yojo], a bridge which provides +CI for Codeberg projects via builds.sr.ht. I've added support for pull +requests, taught yojo to handle multiple manifests, added logic to +automatically refresh access tokens before they expire, and fixed a bunch of +bugs. + +The NPotM is +[sr.ht-container-compose], a [docker-compose] configuration for SourceHut. It +provides an easy way to spin up a SourceHut development environment without +having to set up each service and its dependencies individually. I hope this +project can reduce friction for new SourceHut contributors. There are many +services missing, patches welcome! + +This month, we've finally merged the [Sway pull request][sway#6844] to use the +wlroots scene-graph API! This is exciting because it fixes a whole class of +bugs, it removes a lot of manual hand-rolled logic in Sway (e.g. rendering, +damage tracking, input event routing, direct scan-out, some of the protocol +support…), it provides nice performance optimizations via culling (e.g. the +background image is no longer painted if a web browser is covering it), and it +unlocks upcoming performance optimizations (e.g. KMS plane offloading). Many +thanks to Alexander for writing the patches and maintaining them for over a +year, and to Kirill for pushing it over the finish line! + +On the wlroots side, my work on [`wlr_surface_synced`][wlroots!4480] has been +merged, allowing us to latch surface commits until an arbitrary condition is +met. This work is necessary for the upcoming explicit synchronization protocol, +as well as the work-in-progress transactions protocol and avoiding compositor +freezes when a client is very slow to render. We've released wlroots 0.17.1, +with a collection of bugfixes backported by Simon Zeni. Last, we've dropped +support for the legacy `wl_drm` protocol by default, and this caused a bit of +breakage here and there ([xserver], [libva], [amdvlk]). We do really want to +phase out `wl_drm` though, so we've decided to stick with that removal. + +This month's collection of miscellaneous project updates includes +[go-imap v2 alpha 8] with separate types for sequence numbers and UIDs, which +was a lot of work to get right but I think was worth it. I've also released +[go-maildir v0.4.0] with a new `Walk` function (to iterate over messages without +allocating a list) and numerous fixes. I've sent a [GitLab cli patch][glab!1395] +to fix invalid release asset links for third-party GitLab instances, and a +[Meson patch][meson#12718] to add C23 support. + +See you next month! + +[SourceHut network outage]: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2024-01-19-outage-post-mortem/ +[yojo]: https://sr.ht/~emersion/yojo/ +[sr.ht-container-compose]: https://sr.ht/~emersion/sr.ht-container-compose/ +[docker-compose]: https://docs.docker.com/compose/ +[sway#6844]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/6844 +[wlroots!4480]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/merge_requests/4480 +[xserver]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/1236 +[libva]: https://github.com/intel/libva/pull/790 +[amdvlk]: https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK/issues/351 +[go-imap v2 alpha 8]: https://github.com/emersion/go-imap/releases/tag/v2.0.0-alpha.8 +[go-maildir v0.4.0]: https://github.com/emersion/go-maildir/releases/tag/v0.4.0 +[glab!1395]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli/-/merge_requests/1395 +[meson#12718]: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/12718 -- 2.45.2