GStreamer version for 2.14

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

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

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