Re: Hard Code Freeze Breaks (was Re: GStreamer)

[Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas apestaart org>]

Hi,

(Ross, since I dropped you in in the middle of the conversation, there's
a question for you in the list of bugs down below...)

> > However, I of course prefer if GStreamer people follow the freezes ;-)
> 
> I really like what Matthias does -- if there's an additional release
> after the relevant freezes, he explains why and makes a suggestion
> about what to use.  Any chance we could talk the gstreamer folk into
> doing the same?

So, a quick overview:

Important GStreamer Core bugs, fixed in 0.10.4:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333266 is a very annoying bug: a race in writing the registry can cause
the user to have a completely broken registry.  You can only recover by manually deleting the registry.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331255 reduced our .so size by a good 30%

Full list of bugs fixed:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=GStreamer&component=gstreamer&target_milestone=0.10.4

Important GStreamer Plugins Base bugs, fixed in 0.10.4:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325972 mp3 files ripped with RealJukebox are not playable
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326720 more than 2 channel sound output with alsasink did not work
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331690 last.fm streams don't
work
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331763 and
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331765 are both related to the
alsa mixer, and would cause strange behaviour in gnome's volume applet
and mixer.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332964 possible crash during
typefinding
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333352 is a patch Ross sent
for Sound-Juicer - he may actually be relying on it to be there, I just
realized.  Ross, can you confirm whether or not Sound-Juicer would
compile without this version of gst-plugins-base ?
Beside that, the Ogg muxer got some important fixes so that files are
actually correct now.  May not be an issue if you consider we don't have
a capture application in GNOME.

Full list of bugs fixed:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=GStreamer&component=gst-plugins-base&target_milestone=0.10.4

I think that's pretty much it.

My personal recommendation would be to ship GStreamer Core 0.10.4 and
GStreamer Plugins Base 0.10.5.

Let me know if you have more questions...

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