Re: request for freeze breakage 2/2

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 12:21 +0200, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51152 was applied several
> months ago, and moves gnome-CD over to a cdparanoia-based GStreamer
> pipeline. Anyway, the backend seems to have issues, some of which are
> related to alsa and some of which are related to bugs in gconf pipeline
> parsing and checking. I've asked for permission several days ago to
> break the freeze already, related to another crasher in the code.
> 
> Thomas (who maintains gnome-media with me) has proposed to revert the
> patch for now. I've pondered over it for a while and agree that this is
> the most realistic option. Gnome CD has always worked well and the
> current patch has - in our opinion - introduced unacceptable regressions
> that we can not fix for 2.8.0. This is partly out own fault, the patch
> was only introduced in a gnome-media release at -rc1 (2.7.92; far too
> late).
> 
> Can I have permission to revert the patch in #51152? The bug will be
> reopened and worked on after 2.8.0 has been released. The patch itself
> isn't at fault, it just isn't perfect enough yet.

OK. 1 of 2 approvals. But, when you get the 2nd approval, even though
you are just reverting something, please don't apply it to cvs until
you've tested it at least a bit. This is really last-minute.

Thanks for worrying about this.

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Murray Cumming
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