[pulseaudio-discuss] RFC: Configuration system

[David Henningsson]

On 04/26/2012 12:49 PM, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> One of the [[Software/PulseAudio/GSoC2012|Google Summer of Code project
> ideas for 2012]] was a "configuration system". The configuration system
> was not among the selected projects, but the system was seen as a
> priority,

While I believe that this will probably be something nice to have, on my 
end I don't see this project as a priority.

For me, I would prioritise the stuff that's long overdue:

  * Get 2.0 out the door

  * Review/merge the UCM stuff

  * Implement Colin's priority list routing

But if it's really a prerequisite to make the GSoC students productive, 
I guess there isn't much choice than to get it up and working really fast...

>so the plan now is to design and implement the important bits
> (the client API and the server-side infrastructure) ourselves within May
> 2012 or so (the reason for the tight schedule is that we'd like the GSoC
> students to benefit from this new system). Porting the existing
> configuration to the new system is not a matter of urgency. All the
> existing stuff has to be kept in mind while doing the design, though, so
> that the porting work is possible to do when that time comes.

Is there a plan for making "when that times comes" != "never"? This is 
not meaning to be sarcastic - more I'm being curious about your thoughts 
on the topic.

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