Re: pulseaudio maintainership status
On 12/28/2012 08:25 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Brendan Jones
<brendan.jones.it(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/28/2012 12:33 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>
>> Steve Clark wrote:
>>>
>>> Then why is no one fixing the identified bugs?
>>
>>
>> Because Lennart insists on backporting only individual fixes to Fedora
>> releases as opposed to rebasing to a new version, and nobody has the time
>> to
>> identify and backport the relevant commits.
>>
>> IMHO, we should just upgrade PulseAudio to the latest version in an
>> update.
>>
>> Kevin Kofler
>>
> I fully agree. The effort it takes too identify fixes is too large. Also,
> upstream will not be as amenable in helping us diagnose bugs when we are so
> behind.
I don't agree. We're moments from release and the 3.0 release hasn't
been out for that long and it's likely that while it might fix the one
bug it could introduce any number of other bugs.
I'm not suggesting we upgrade
F18 now, but I think we should be open to
the idea post release, and even for F17.