[pulseaudio-discuss] Impending freeze

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 10:12 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote:
> Hi folks,
> Due to some all-round lack of communication, the next GNOME release
> (3.10) is in a position where it will hard dep on BlueZ 5.x and above,
> and this would cause a regression in at least HSP/HFP support if not
> A2DP as well.
> 
> To help mitigate this, we are going to advance the next PA release by
> about 1.5 months. The current plan is this:
> 
>   Freeze: July 25th, 2013
>   Release: August 15th, 2013
> 
> If you have any patches pending that you'd like to see in PA 5.0, send
> it in with enough time to review (and if it's on-list pending review,
> please bump the thread).
> 
> Cheers,
> Arun
> 
> p.s.: Packagers, if your distribution doesn't already have BlueZ 5
> packages, now would be a good time to try to get some ready so we can
> test things properly.

The planned freeze day is today. Assuming that we keep the plan as it
is, what is currently in master will go to PA 5.0, and not much else
(bug fixes only). This means that our BlueZ 5 support will only cover
A2DP, so BlueZ 4 will be required for HSP and HFP.

Publishing release candidates has been handled by Arun in the past, and
I expect that this tradition will continue. My understanding is that
Arun is busy with other stuff for this week, so I guess we'll have to
wait for a release candidate until Monday at least.

Current release blocker bugs:

 * https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65349 -
module-card-restore doesn't work properly with bluetooth

 * https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65868 - Unplugging and
replugging a USB microphone device does not restore the settings / sound
levels

-- 
Tanu