On 27/04/21 10:10 am, Damian Minkov wrote: > Hi Sunil, > > Sorry for jumping in but I recently answered on the same topic: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760485#54 > <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760485#54> > And here I had attached the dependencies for all the packages > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760485#74 > <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760485#74> and as I > did it half a year ago, half of it had probably already changed...
Thank you for the additional information. I made myself familiar with the dependencies for Jitsi Videobridge and I am focusing on that. I remain undaunted by the big list :) I plan to work on Jitsi Meet later. > > FastTrack sounds good. The current pace is a release every 2-3 months, > if the new versions can go there directly that sounds like it will solve > the problem. But, of course, we want to speed up this process. > > You said: "Once the packages have stabilized enough (over the > months/years) they can move into unstable/testing/stable. " > Looking at the past 5-6 years, there is no such thing as "stabilized > enough ", I can give you many examples ... and there is one coming in > August ... PlanB will be dropped off from chrome. So this means whatever > version you have of jitsi-meet, it will stop working in August and > everyone needs to update to the latest stable that we even haven't > started working on yet and probably will be out a month or so earlier. > So for the past 5-6 years, this is how things move, every browser > updates at a 6-week pace, and we basically follow it. So we need to be > pushing releases every 6 weeks and someone needs to dedicate be working > on that to update the repositories with the new version and work on > adding the new dependencies to the official repos ... > I see. This probably means that jitsi-meet will be in fasttrack for foreseeable future. I will try to keep the Debian changes/packaging to the minimal in order to be able to follow the upstream releases closely. Thanks, -- Sunil