Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le lundi 16 janvier 2006 �3:52 -0700, Elijah Newren a �it :
> On 1/16/06, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> 
> > > They could use basic triaging in the sense that someone should go
> > > through them and see what applies to the 0.10 version.  I think that
> > > you'd find most GStreamer bug triagers to mark them as obsolete if they
> > > apply only to the 0.8 backend though, and I don't know if that's what
> > > you want in this case.
> >
> > I don't think marking them as obsolete is okay right now. I'd use the
> > status whiteboard so we can easily know they're only happening with the
> > 0.8 backend. (Or maybe create a gstreamer0.8 component, but this is
> > ugly).
> 
> See http://blogs.gnome.org/view/newren/2005/09/30/0 for more details
> where I'm coming from, but I'm basically going to disagree with
> Vincent here -- I think it should be perfectly fine to mark all those
> bugs as obsolete and tell the reporter they are free to reopen if they
> experience the same issue under 0.10.  I think which versions are
> considered obsolete ought to be up to the maintainers (though we'd
> appreciate a note in the product specific guidelines, linked to from
> the browse page in bugzilla, so that triagers can help).  There is a
> tradeoff that needs to be made and we don't want to be too agressive
> just closing out 'old' bugs, but I think we tend to err far on the
> side off keeping too many bugs open that just aren't helpful.

Well, the question is: is GStreamer 0.8 totally unmaintained? I had
understood that Ronald was planning to make a new release with some
fixes, so that's why I proposed to not close the bugs.

But I'm of course okay to close the bugs if Ronald don't need them...

Vincent

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