Hi all, So, the release team messed up and didn't keep close enough tabs on everything, resulting in discovering an issue pretty late. We need to try to find rough consensus in the community.
Some background on the problem: + http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirteen_2fDesktop (and the jhbuild modulesets as a result) listed GStreamer 0.8 to be shipped with Gnome 2.14. + quite a few people were assuming that 0.10 was the plan for 2.14 and were totally unaware that 0.8 had even been on the plan. Ubuntu and Fedora development versions (i.e. the distros that Elijah checked or found out about) seem to both be headed towards 0.10. + GStreamer 0.8 will be nearly unmaintained in the future since nearly all development is now happening on 0.10. + GStreamer 0.10 has multiple regressions relative to 0.8 that look unlikely to be fixed by release time. Thomas and Ronald and others can flesh out the technical details much better than we can, so we'll let them do so. It is possible to have both 0.8 and 0.10 installed at the same time, so the decision could be to ship both and have modules use 0.10 if it works for them and otherwise use 0.8. Or maybe support both with a configure switch. However, either of these would mean taking a lot of developer time that would seem much better spent fixing a single version. It is somewhat unfortunate, but the lateness of the issue will probably force some difficulty in the schedule. We may need to shove feature/module freeze effectively back a week (but not doing the same for subsequent dates) or being lenient with GStreamer-related freeze break requests at first to get this straightened out. So, thoughts? Opinions? (FWIW, the mail was written by Elijah and all errors in it were, as usual, introduced by myself) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list