Now that this change has hit the release channel, we've started receiving feedback from a wider range of users, a lot of it in bug 1345661 [1].
I believe the feedback in that thread brings some new information to the table that we weren't aware of when this decision was made: - Based on the volume of the feedback we received, and the number of duplicate bugs and so on, it appears that quoted telemetry data underestimates the number of users who use ALSA. This is corroborated by the fact that some of the affected distributions disable telemetry in their Firefox packages. - A number of users, particularly those in the audiophile and music production / recording communities, report technical reasons for preferring ALSA over PulseAudio. - We've had an offer from someone to volunteer to maintain the ALSA backend (bug 1345661 comment 52 [2]). Based on this new information, might there be room to reconsider this decision? Cheers, Botond [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345661 [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345661#c52 On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Randell Jesup <rje...@jesup.org> wrote: >>I just landed some telemetry to measure the usage of all audio backends, >>we'll have data soon. >> >>This was bug 1280630, and the probe is at [0]. This also measures >>failures to open a stream and usage of backends that should not be used >>on certain platform, like winmm on windows vista+. >> >>Also I support this proposal. > > We have some data now; in Aurora 50 it's 96.5%/3.5%, Nightly 51 is > 98%/2% > > Of course, even Aurora users aren't necessarily "typical" users, but I > imagine these will not move much in the favor of Alsa in Beta or > release, and more likely move towards Pulse ("users" are more likely to > be running plain-jane distros which have Pulse enabled by default - but > we'll see). > > We'll start getting beta results in a few weeks. > > -- > Randell Jesup, Mozilla Corp > remove "news" for personal email > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform