pulseaudio maintainership status

[Brendan Jones]

On 12/28/2012 08:25 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Brendan Jones
> <brendan.jones.it at 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.