Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <uraeus linuxrising org>]

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 11:27 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:

> The problem is that the stuff that used to work doesn't anymore.

Well stuff that used to cause crashes in 0.8 doesn't anymore, so it goes
both ways.


> And there are over 80 opened bugs against the Totem GStreamer backend,
> most of them should be either fixed in Totem, reassigned to GStreamer,
> or put on NEEDINFO (against 20 for the xine-lib backend).

Of those 80 most are from the 0.8 days. And they illustrate the problem
with nobody working on the 0.8 stuff anymore.

> > To me the big issue is not comparing the 0.8 vs 0.10 bug count, not that
> > there is more bugs currently with 0.10, just different (and easier to
> > fix), but which branch will see significant improvements and bugfixes
> > going forward. 0.8 is not that branch and if we don't switch now, GNOME
> > is stuck with a mostly dead 0.8 branch for the next 6-9 months.
> > Currently the only thing happening in 0.8 is the applying of a few
> > submitted patches, but no work is being done on the big hard issues,
> > like improving the threading problems which causes all the random
> > crashes people experience with 0.8 Totem for instance.
> 
> Ronald filed about 10 GStreamer backend bugs in Totem. The progress on
> those will be a good way to check on the progress for 2.14.

Sure, Tim will be working on fixing these issues.

Christian