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

["Peter Robinson" <pbrobinson gmail com>]

>> >>> 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.

I think uPnP support would be a pretty reasonable user facing change.
While not bling, would make it much easier for a lot of people.

And the move to the GTK Ridley update (deprecation of use of older libraries).

Peter