[pulseaudio-discuss] about pulseaudio 4.0 release

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 14:38 +0000, Zhang, Vivian wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am working on Tizen project which includes pulseaudio (v 0.9.23) as
> the sound server, we have the plan to upgrade pulseaudio to latest
> upstream version and are making  the evaluation now.
>     Glad to know that pulseaudio v 3.99.1  has been released as the
> first release candidate for 4.0.  Any schedule/plan for 4.0 final
> release, and any new features in this release?

Arun is handling the tarballs (release candidates and final releases),
so the schedule is affected by how busy he is, but basically it should
work like this (this is my understanding - the process isn't currently
documented officially anywhere):

 1. publish a release candidate
 2. wait for a week (at least) for feedback
 3. if there are significant changes done during this time, goto 1
 4. if there are open release blocker bugs, fix them and goto 1
 5. publish the final tarball

The list of release blocker bugs is here (see the "Depends on" field):
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63665

That list isn't set to stone - for example, I doubt that there will be
any activity on 58758. I think Arun said that he intends to publish RC2
once he fixes 61262 - I don't know how soon that will happen. We will
anyway have at least one more release candidate, so the release is at
least a week away.

As for new features, I don't think we have anything major this time
(shell completion is cool, though). I haven't done the release notes yet
(should do soon...), so I don't have a clear picture of the details.

-- 
Tanu

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