Re: request for freeze breakage 2/2

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

Hi Ronald,

On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 12:50, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 12:21 +0200, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51152 was applied several
> > months ago, and moves gnome-CD over to a cdparanoia-based GStreamer
> > pipeline. Anyway, the backend seems to have issues, some of which are
> > related to alsa and some of which are related to bugs in gconf pipeline
> > parsing and checking. I've asked for permission several days ago to
> > break the freeze already, related to another crasher in the code.
> > 
> > Thomas (who maintains gnome-media with me) has proposed to revert the
> > patch for now. I've pondered over it for a while and agree that this is
> > the most realistic option. Gnome CD has always worked well and the
> > current patch has - in our opinion - introduced unacceptable regressions
> > that we can not fix for 2.8.0. This is partly out own fault, the patch
> > was only introduced in a gnome-media release at -rc1 (2.7.92; far too
> > late).
> > 
> > Can I have permission to revert the patch in #51152? The bug will be
> > reopened and worked on after 2.8.0 has been released. The patch itself
> > isn't at fault, it just isn't perfect enough yet.
> 
> OK. 1 of 2 approvals. But, when you get the 2nd approval, even though
> you are just reverting something, please don't apply it to cvs until
> you've tested it at least a bit. This is really last-minute.
> 
> Thanks for worrying about this.

	Sorry this got dropped. Please go ahead - approval 2 of 2.

Cheers,
Mark.