pulseaudio maintainership status

[Brendan Jones]

On 12/25/2012 10:50 AM, Julian Sikorski wrote:
> Dear list, Dear Lennart,
>
> a week ago I have submitted a pulseaudio bug alongside with the patch
> [1]. There was no response so far.
> Knowing that Lennart is busy with systemd these days, I proceeded to
> check the pkgdb status of pulseaudio. The only other maintainer with
> commit access is lkundrak, who has been declared non-responsive a while
> ago himself, plus 3 request pending.
> To have such a critical subsystem barely maintained does not seem
> sustainable. I have already stepped up to co-maintain pavucontrol and
> paprefs, but PA proper is a whole other level. I have joined the waiting
> list and am willing communicate the issues between Fedora and upstream,
> but someone with an ability to fix bugs on their own would be welcome too.
> Lennart, could you please look at the pending ACL requests? Thank you.
>
> Merry Christmas everyone,
> Julian
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888422
>
If you look at the build status you can see pulseaudio is hardly 
unmaintained.

Rex Dieter has also provided a backport of the latest pulseaudio to use 
with early releases. I'm sure he is very amenable to cherry picking 
patches from a later release if it fixes a specific issue people may be 
having.

http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/rdieter/pulseaudio-backport/