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+title: Status update, August 2019
+tags: ["status update"]
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+
+Outside my window, the morning sun can be seen rising over the land of the
+rising sun, as I sip from a coffee purchased at the konbini down the street. I
+almost forgot to order it, as the staffer behind the counter pointed out with a
+smile and a joke that, having been told in Japanese, mostly went over my head.
+It's on this quiet Osaka morning I write today's status update - there are lots
+of existing developments to share!
+
+Let's start with sourcehut news. I deployed a cool feature yesterday - SSH
+access to builds.sr.ht. You can now SSH into a failed build to examine the
+failure and investigate the root cause. You can also get a shell on-demand for
+any build image, including for experimental arm64 support. I'll be writing a
+full-length blog post going into detail about this feature later in the week.
+Additionally, with contributor Ryan Chan's help, man.sr.ht received a huge
+overhaul which moved wikis out of man.sr.ht's dedicated git subsystem and into
+git.sr.ht repositories, allowing you to make your wiki out of a branch of your
+main project repo or browse the git data on the web. I'll be posting more sr.ht
+news to sr.ht-announce later today if you want to hear more!
+
+![Screenshot of a failed build on builds.sr.ht offering SSH access to the build
+environment](https://sr.ht/thL-.png)
+
+[aerc 0.2.0](https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc/refs/0.2.0) has been released,
+which included nearly 200 changes from 34 contributors. I'm grateful to the
+community for this crazy amount of support - working together we'll make aerc
+amazing in no time. Highlights include maildir and sendmail transports, search
+and filtering, support for `mailto:` links, tab completion, and more. We haven't
+slowed down since, and the next release already has support lined up for
+notmuch, more tab completion support, and more features for mail composition. In
+related news, Greg Kroah-Hartman of Linux kernel fame was kind enough to [write
+up](http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2019/08/14/patch-workflow-with-mutt-2019/)
+details about his email workflow to help guide the direction of aerc. I'll be
+writing a follow-up post next week explaining how aerc aims to solve the
+problems he lays out.
+
+Sway and wlroots continue chugging along as well, with the release of Sway
+1.2-rc1 coming earlier this week. This release adds many features from the
+recent i3 4.17 release, and adds a handful of small features and bug fixes. The
+corresponding wlroots release will be pretty cool, too, adding support for
+direct scanout and fixing dozens of bugs. I'd like to draw your attention as
+well to a cool project from the Sway community: Jason Francis's
+[wdisplays](https://github.com/cyclopsian/wdisplays), a GUI for arranging and
+configuring displays on wlroots-based desktops. The changes necessary for it to
+work will land in sway 1.2, and users building from git can try it out today.
+
+![](https://sr.ht/iyU4.png)
+
+On the DRM leasing and VR for Wayland work I was discussing in the last update,
+I'm happy to share that I've got it working with SteamVR! I've written a
+[detailed blog post](/2019/08/09/DRM-leasing-and-VR-for-Wayland.html) which
+explains all of the work that went into this project, if you want to learn about
+it in depth and watch some cool videos summing up the work. There's still a lot
+of work to do in negotiating the standardization of new interfaces to support
+this feature in several projects, but all of the unknowns have been discovered
+and answered. We will have VR on Wayland soon. I plan on making my way to the
+[Monado](https://monado.dev/) and [OpenXR](https://www.khronos.org/openxr) to
+help realize a top-to-bottom free software VR stack designed with Wayland in
+mind. I'll also be joining many members of the wlroots gang at
+[XDC](https://xdc2019.x.org/) in October, where I hope to meet the people
+working on OpenXR.
+
+I've also invested more time into my Wayland book, because I've realized that at
+my current pace it won't be done any time soon. It's now about half complete and
+I've picked up the pace considerably. If you're interested in helping review the
+drafts, please let me know!
+
+That's all for today. Thank you for your continued support!
+
+<small class="text-muted">
+This work was possible thanks to users who support me financially. Please
+consider <a href="/donate">donating to my work</a> or <a
+href="https://sourcehut.org">buying a sourcehut.org subscription</a>. Thank you!
+</small>