Minutes for IRC meeting at 18:00 UTC (10am PST). Feel free to expand on this with as much detail as you want. Also available: the raw log.

Attendees: Jamey Sharp, Christoph Pfister, Vincent Torri, Josh Triplett, Julien Cristau, Rob Taylor, Thomas Hunger, Ian Osgood, Bart Massey

• Review the TODO list.
  • Define new goals for near future.
  • Missing extensions / features.
  • Fix Sync extension init request.
  • Fix struct padding issue.
  • Short-term fix: __attribute__((packed))?
  • Long-term fix: rewrite output layer?
  • Output layer could use a mechanism like output iterators, writing a struct at a time. xcb_foo_request_start(), xcb_foo_request_some_component()*, xcb_foo_request_end()
• We're almost ready for a new libxcb release, after:
  • Update the version dependency on xcb-proto.
  • ReleasingXcb
• Review remaining issues blocking use of Xlib/XCB by default.
  • What about the other deadlock with ico (process_responses)?
• Find bug reports and e-mail that hasn't been properly responded to.
  • There are 27 open bugs in bugzilla; find the important ones.
  • 5960: arguably not XCB's bug; apps should retry if they want that.
  • 6682 (X meets Z): not ready yet
  • 6812 (change isvoid to flags): API/ABI break, not very important
  • 9944: should already be fixed in git and the upcoming release
  • 10637: code generation bug, not critical
• Bugs against things other than the XCB core:
  • 9463: needs to happen, eventually
  • 11285 (memory leak in Xlib/XCB): need investigation
  • 11751: probable process_responses bug, needs investigation
• Review the new Python code generator.
  • Who has Python skills?
• Bart partway done with converting x11perf to XCB.
  • May need some help.
  • Suggested changes to util
• util canonization schedule / plan
  • Obviously not everything is at the same stage
  • aux has high priority
• Getting more projects to convert to XCB
  • ecore-xcb: running, but some points missing [Vincent]
  • porting toolkits based on evas and ecore [Vincent]
  • keyboard hell!
  • Wine, gstreamer (potentially fixes locking bugs), mplayer
  • Window managers
  • Language bindings
• Documentation needs help
  • wiki is broken
  • move core api docs into doxygen headers [Bart]
  • generate protocol docs from XML comments [Thomas, Vincent]
  • add error management in the tutorial [Vincent]
• Include xinput.xml in proto
• consider bugs 5962, 6105, 6684, 6686, 5958 for python generator
• Ping Zack Rusin about porting Qt

Future meetings: - xcb-util refactor and release (Bart) - XKB, XKB2, how to stop butchering kittens (coordinate with Daniel Stone)