[pulseaudio-discuss] Impending freeze

[Luiz Augusto von Dentz]

Hi Tanu,

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Tanu Kaskinen
<tanu.kaskinen at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 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.

I guess we could wait to push Joao Paulo changes if he has fixed
following your comments, but perhaps it is a too big patch-set to
wait.

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

There seems to a problem when setting the Bluetooth to 'off' profile
the ports are still available, I don't have the full details yet but
apparently this has been around for some time since we merged the
ports perhaps Mikel has an idea what is going on.

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