Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] New branch for Ekiga 3.00

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le mercredi 17 septembre 2008 à 15:56 +0200, Julien Puydt a écrit :
> Damien Sandras a écrit :
> > Le mercredi 17 septembre 2008 à 15:05 +0200, Julien Puydt a écrit :
> >> Damien Sandras a écrit :
> >>> Le mercredi 17 septembre 2008 à 13:39 +0200, Julien Puydt a écrit :
> >>>> Damien Sandras a écrit :
> >>>>> OPAL and PTLIB have been branched for the Ekiga 3.00 release.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Please use the new branches and not SVN TRUNK anymore.
> >>>> Is it possible to do the same for ekiga too?
> >>>>
> >>>> I have a few patches for after 3.0 already.
> >>>>
> >>>> And a few ideas too.
> >>> I would prefer waiting 1 week.
> >>> We also need to discuss how we will work for 3.2. I do not want the same
> >>> phenomenon than with 3.00 : 3 years of development without release.
> >> There are a few directions we can work on ; I shall name them and show 
> >> (some) bugs assigned to myself which I consider of the category as example :
> >>
> >> (*) fixing bugs in current code
> >>
> >> (it's hopefully pretty empty just before the release, but we can expect 
> >> it to grow just after...)
> >>
> >>
> >> (*) enhancements of existing code
> >>
> >>
> >> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548276
> >> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530617
> >>
> >>
> >> (*) cleaning of existing code :
> >>
> >>
> >> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552547
> >> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504937
> >>
> >>
> >> (*) better engine :
> >>
> >>
> >> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550278
> >> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550277
> >> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504936
> >> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552549
> >>
> >>
> >> (*) gstreamer :
> >>
> >>
> >> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339896
> >> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339897
> >> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399289
> >>
> >>
> >> Does it look good?
> >>
> > 
> > Not at all.
> > 
> > The reason is that there are no user visible or centric features. Let's
> > not make the same mistake than for 3.00.
> 
> Having default categories is visible, and that is precisely why it can't 
> be done for 3.0 : it would break string freeze!
> 
> Having gstreamer devices would bring in portaudio, jack and correct avc 
> support -- that is very user-visible and would remove a good chunk of 
> the bugs in my assigned list!
> 
> Cleaning the existing code is pretty important too, as cruft makes it 
> harder to implement new features.
> 
> Etc
> 

everything has to be done in a 6 months cycle.
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