[gst-devel] Re: GStreamer not following GNOME release process

[Murray Cumming]

On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 00:22, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Jeff Waugh">
> 
> > Another suggestion made previously is that we could remove GStreamer from
> > the GNOME release module sets, and deal with it similarly to the way we
> > handle other external dependencies such as libpng and gnutls by following
> > the stable releases only, etc. This will allow GStreamer to follow its own
> > release process, whatever that may be.
> 
> Didn't mention it in the original email, but worth pointing out: This would
> be hard and unfun without API/ABI stable releases from GStreamer, so it's
> definitely not preferred. :-)

Yes, and I would be very scared of shifting gstreamer from the GNOME
release schedule to the freedesktop release schedule until that schedule
has proved that it's a real working schedule. gstreamer needs more
schedule, not less. It's getting there.

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