Mir Office Hours - 2026-08-26 15:15UTC

We host Mir Office Hours every month

Everyone is welcome. No prior arrangements are necessary. You don’t need to sign-up, or register. Just click on the link to join, for as little or as much time as you can spare, at any time during the event.


Agenda

  1. Actions from previous meeting
    a. Mike: manpages in Debian
  2. Mir 2.29 Release
  3. Miriway 26.08: Mir 2.29 API changes and Snap moves to base: core26 @alan_g
  4. Rust Mir APIs: @matthew-kosarek
  5. Marius: Hardware layers for nested setups?
  6. Any Other Business

If you have any questions you’d like us to answer or topics to cover, please feel free to ask them live, or leave them as comments below - we’ll be able to prepare better and select some to make space for in the agenda

Notes

We’ll post notes from each meeting in a comment below for posterity and discussion.

Recordings

We record/transcribe the main section of the meeting for publishing, but only the speaker is visible in the recording - and you can disable your video if you wish.
We shut this off after the agenda is exhausted and there’s time for more casual discussion after.

Notes

  • Review of action items from last time
    • The discussion on how to contribute docs spawned another discussion about Manpages in Debian from Mike.
  • 2.29 Release
    • Aiming for a monthly cadence. A week or so after the office hours.
    • Lots of deprecations.
  • Miriway 26.08
    • Builds with both new and legacy Mir
    • Snap moved to base: core26 and promoted to stable. No one complained about it, yet.
  • Rust Mir APIs
    • Coming soon to a Cargo repo near you!
    • Feedback is very much welcome. Anything we could make more idiomatic?
  • Marius: Using hardware layers with nested compositors?
    • Usecase: System compositor + Mir compositor
    • Should theoretically be supported, granted that both compositors support bypass, and the stars align.
    • Lomiri has a related case.
  • Marius: Would Mir be willing to accept more mobile-friendly protocols?
    • Alan: Depends on the protocol. Make an issue and we can take a look.

Action Items:

Saviq: publish the Mir roadmap in the docs (in review)
Matt: explore experimental miral APIs.

  • Not yet poked.
  • A scene graph may suffice what Matt wants. Let us know if you need more than that!

The recording

https://youtu.be/HX1rFYYpXI8