Re: What can we do with Ekiga 3.00 ?

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le dimanche 31 août 2008 à 22:51 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit :
> Hi Damien,
> 
> Le samedi 30 août 2008, à 21:31 +0200, Damien Sandras a écrit :
> > Hello to all,
> > 
> > Ekiga 3.00 is nearing a release, but we have a bad feeling about it.
> > Generally speaking, Ekiga 3.00 is a rewrite of Ekiga 2.00, with more
> > features, a better ui, and a different approach. 
> > 
> > It is still heavily based on OPAL.
> > 
> > Ekiga itself is ready to be released, except the fact that I have to
> > work on the manual tomorrow. OPAL, however, is not quite there yet.
> > There are still a few deadlocks to debug, problems with the jitter
> > buffer using some codecs and probably some stability bugs to fix.
> > 
> > We now have three options :
> > 1) release Ekiga 3.00 in time for GNOME, but we fear this release looks
> > unfinished in terms of stability to our users. Sure, it is certainly
> > more stable and better than much software, but it is probably not as
> > good as Ekiga 2.00
> > 
> > 2) release Ekiga 3.00 for the next GNOME, in march 2009. However, it is
> > too far, we feel that 2 months of work after the release of GNOME is the
> > maximum we can wait.
> > 
> > 3) release Ekiga 3.00 during a minor upgrade of GNOME. In that case,
> > could it be part of the release notes even though it would be
> > distributed later ?
> > 
> > I also know that some people would like to see empathy replacing ekiga
> > at some point (even though they do not have the same purpose and
> > capabilities at all).
> > 
> > What are the options ? What do you suggest ?
> 
> Sooo. It's clearly a tricky decision to take. From a GNOME point of
> view, I think we'd like to have only one "stable" branch for the whole
> 2.24 lifecycle. So it means we'd go with options 1 or 2. Given the fact
> that people have been waiting for Ekiga 3.00 for quite some time, I'd go
> with 1. Note that what really matters is what distro ship, and distros
> will most likely ship with 2.24.1, which should give some time to fix
> things.
> 
> Note that you can contact distributors on
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/distributor-list
> 

OK, we'll do our best to release it in time.
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