[pulseaudio-discuss] plan/timeline for a release

[Georg Chini]

On 04.06.19 19:42, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 16:59 +0300, Kai Vehmanen wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been testing pulse with the new Intel SOF [1] audio drivers (that are
>> going to 5.2 kernel).
>>
>> In my tests, e.g. system suspend/stress tests work much better on latest
>> master of pulseaudio, compared to test with latest released Pulseaudio.
>>
>> At least this patch in PA master has a big improvement:
>> "alsa: Improve resume logic after alsa suspend"
>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/f7b3537bbf9a6916ee3fd72a82025519b4c346f5
>>
>> With that introduction, any plans for an official Pulseaudio release this
>> year? It seems there are many patches in master (like the above) and time
>> has passed since 12.2.
>> 	
>> [1] https://thesofproject.github.io/
> There are no concrete plans at the moment, but we certainly should make
> a release this year (preferably two). According to the usual process we
> should have started preparing the release last October, but somehow
> that didn't happen... The reason I didn't push for a release last fall
> was that there's a certain feature that I secretly wanted to get in
> first, and that's still not done. There hasn't been much pressure from
> other people either.
>
> I think we could freeze master now. I don't want to block the release
> waiting for any features, such as the A2DP codec stuff. Arun, Georg,
> what are your thoughts?
>
I'd like to have the messaging patches in the upcoming release.
It should not be too much work to review them and I think I fixed
all issues you found during your last review (except one that you
can probably fix easily when pushing the patches).
Otherwise I would be fine with freezing master and preparing
a new release. Do we have any blocker bugs?