[GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Poll: Is GnomeMeeting ready for 1.00

["Kenneth R. van Wyk" <Ken KRvW com>]

Damien,

Interesting poll (and results).  Since you asked...

I am a big fan of GnomeMeeting and would love to see it continue to succeed.  
But, I voted no to a version 1.0.  Here's why:

There have been numerous reports of video dropping mid-session, including an 
extensive dialog of my own, and another one earlier this week.  I've searched 
the archives and have found at least 5 of these threads, and none of them was 
ever really publicly resolved, including my own.  I did run the debug that 
you asked for; I did set up port forwarding on my Linksys router and IP 
masquerading in Gnomemeeting; I did everything that you suggested and the 
problem remains.  Sometimes sessions work fine, and sometimes video gets 
dropped between 1 and 5 minutes into the session.  Much as I hate using 
Windoze, Netmeeting works fine on the same LAN that GnomeMeeting doesn't 
consistently work fine on for me, so that's what I've reverted to for my VTC 
meetings with friends and clients.

I would _vastly_ prefer to use GnomeMeeting and be able to be truly a 100% 
Penguin shop, but I still find myself using MS from time to time, such as for 
Netmeeting.  I hate it, but I'm not forced to for reliability.  

I wish you and your project nothing but success and will continue to try out 
every new release as it becomes available, but I (for one) don't feel that 
GnomeMeeting is ready for "prime time".  I hope that that changes.  Finally, 
I'll add here that I'm available and happy to test any fixes to this (or 
other) issues any time.

Cheers,

Ken

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