On Mon, 2020-11-30 at 00:31 +0100, Dan Čermák wrote:
"Wim Taymans" wtaymans@fedoraproject.org writes:
- propose permanent switch for f35
- it gets at least full cycle of testing (f34 + part of f33)
- re-evaluate situation for f35 beta freeze to make a default
switch.
Although a bit slower than expected, I guess more testing is good. It sounds like an acceptable plan to me. I'm not sure how it works, if spinoffs can/want to make an earlier switch?
Hm, I don't see a technical reason why a certain edition of Fedora couldn't ship with PipeWire by default earlier. Albeit I don't think that jumping ahead of the rest of the distro would reflect very well on the project, unless you call it "Fedora PipeWire Edition".
It will be a spin in this case (Jam), not an edition, right? (And editions sometimes do differ in what features they ship, e.g. Workstation defaulted to btrfs in F33 but Server had not.
If the benefits for pro audio users outweigh any issues that cause the default to be reverted to Pulseaudio, I can see it being valuable to Jam to stick to Pipewire anyway while the balance goes the other way around for non-pro users who don't use JACK.
Cheers,