[pulseaudio-discuss] plan/timeline for a release

[Pali Rohár]

On Wednesday 05 June 2019 09:57:01 Georg Chini wrote:
> 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?

I would like to see reviewed and merged first 5 patches in my bluetooth
series. Those are just fixes of current code, not new A2DP codecs.

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar at gmail.com
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