Re: GUPnP and PulseAudio

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi Zeeshan,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>   I was wondering why GUPnP and PulseAudio are listed as "Technologies
> in Incubation". Both of these technologies have proven themselves
> stable, reliable, useful and embeddable (as in you can easily put it
> on a GNOME mobile platform) enough to be included in the mainstream
> GNOME mobile technologies. FWIW, both of these technologies are
> already part of Nokia's Maemo platform.

First, because the GNOME Mobile SDK 2.24 was an initial release, and
thus was conservative.

Second, because GNOME Mobile as an initiative has grown out of practice
- we got together because many people were using GNOME technologies in
mobile environments, as a way to brainstorm on what was needed for this
usecase, and as a way to co-operate on making it happen.

So from its inception, GNOME Mobile has been following practice, rather
than setting an agenda. And as far as I know, PulseAudio has not yet
gained universal acceptance among GNOME Mobile participants.

That may change in future releases, and indeed GNOME Mobile may move
from centralising effort in shared components to setting an agenda and
encouraging the adoption of free software components not currently in
common use. But we're not there yet.

Cheers,
Dave.

-- 
Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
dneary gnome org