Re: How we make decisions... [Fwd: Re: Proposal: replacing esound with polypaudio in 2.10]

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 20:16 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Thu, 11.11.04 19:48, Sri Ramkrishna (sri aracnet com) wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> > By the end of the thread, the author of this particular piece of
> > technology has:
> > 
> > * No idea what he really needs to get this accepted by the GNOME 
> >   community. Sure  he's been asked to fix a couple of things.  Some
> >   minor complaints about not working on non-FPU systems but really no 
> >   appreciable list.  If we're serious, lets create a bugzilla component
> >   for him and get at least some branching and testing going.  Getting
> >   rid of Esound is great goal for 2.10 or the next release after and at
> >   least one distro is using it.
> 
> BTW: I (the polypaudio guy) created a small todo list from all the
> issues (or at least those I consider sensible and useful) that were
> discussed on this mailing list recently. And I am currently working on
> closing as many issues of the list as I can. The issues I already
> closed are:

Thats great.  I'm glad you're being tenacious about wanting this into
the GNOME desktop. :)  A bugzilla account would still be good IMHO.


> I plan to release a new version of polypaudio when i closed all issues
> from the list above (except x11 synchronization), so that nobody is
> able to find another objection for adapting gnome for polypaudio.
> 
> > I could feel that he was getting frustrated and irritated dealing with
> > this community.
> 
> Not really. This is free software after all, I didn't expect it any
> better... ;-)

Then you must have amazing patience. :-) In any case, I'd like to see it
better.  Making speedy decisions would be great.  We technical people
tend to just get into the details too much sometimes.  But if you're
willing to detail.  I certainly won't stand in your way. :)

sri