Cheapest way to ship something to Mars is to contribute to Linux or ffmpeg:
Status update, February 2021
A little late, because I've been drowned in more urgent work.
Just built a small tool to try KMS configurations:
https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/tentative
Can be useful to figure out what your favorite display hardware supports.
Seeking Turkish speakers to review this Sway PR:
Getting into the mood for FOSDEM 2021 tip #4 print this file and put it on your door or wall ;)
https://fosdem.org/2021/assets/devroom_full_only-5bab8090a91d0904c53be181341fea496d371123ef9f845774f9a061f2ededf7.pdf
I realized that wlroots (with its à-la-carte helpers) sidesteps completely the "midlayer mistake" some other compositor libraries have made. Interesting LWN article about it:
https://lwn.net/Articles/336262/
And the Daniel Vetter article that led me here:
https://blog.ffwll.ch/2016/12/midlayers-once-more-with-feeling.html
Fresh Wayland rant
Added a short page about packaging wlroots/Sway, mostly notes about Meson for now.
https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/wiki/Packaging-recommendations
Wayfire 0.7.0 has been released:
If someone struggles to find an ARM image with user-space that doesn't come from the last century, there are a bunch of random Manjaro images here:
https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/osdn/storage/g/m/ma/manjaro-arm/
At least it's better than nothing…
Wayland 1.19.0 has been released!
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2021-January/041692.html
I've been using @lynne's cyanrip to rip a bunch of CDs. It just works™ and does just what I want, pretty happy with it.