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

[Johnny Strom <jonny strom netikka fi>]

Hi


I will do a test today for 1 or 2 hours on my local lan between GM and 
NM to see if I can se this problem..


Cheers Johnny


Kenneth R. van Wyk wrote:
> 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