gst-streaming-server stalls

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Sat, 2013-01-12 at 15:55 +0100, marcin at saepia.net wrote:
> I also have hope that 1.0 will fix that but
> 
> a) I prefer to rely on data, not hope ;)
> b) I appreciate work that was needed to create 1.0 but I am still
> frightened by amount of bugs fixed in every 1.0.x - I assume that this
> list is not complete and there are plenty of bugs still to be found.

I am a bit puzzled by this comment. What exactly is "frightening"? How
do things differ between 0.10.x and 1.x? And what data is that based on?

GStreamer has a lot of reported bugs. And many more that haven't been
found or reported yet. That has always been true, and it likely will
always be true, and has little to do with 0.10 or 1.x. (Despite that, it
generally seems to work pretty well for many different use cases.)

As an example, in the last round of 0.10 releases we fixed ca. 530
bugzilla bugs, and many more that don't have a bugzilla entry. It would
take you about 15-20 minutes just to just read that list. (!)

And irrespective of 0.10 or 1.0, one thing is certain: we will be fixing
a large number of bugs in the next few years. This is pretty much
inevitable with a large and complex code base like GStreamer, whose
parts are constantly being put to use in different combinations and
ways.

The only thing that has changed now is that we are making frequent
bug-fix releases to get fixes out faster, and don't make risky/large
changes in the stable branch. I think this is a good thing.

 Cheers
  -Tim