pulseaudio maintainership status

[Steve Clark]

On 12/26/2012 11:26 AM, Brendan Jones wrote:
> 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/
Then why is no one fixing the identified bugs?

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