[Mageia-dev] Freeze Push Question: pulseaudio

Sun Mar 11 23:32:45 CET 2012

Hi,
+
+We're aiming to get a PA 2.0 release out very soon (within the next 4
+weeks).
+
+I wasn't originally intending to request this release in mga2 purely
+because I wasn't aware that we were getting kernel 3.3 until recently
+(my bad).
+
+As you'll have seen from my reply to Thomas' announce about the kernel,
+and as we've now merged the relevant patches in upstream PA to make use
+of the new interfaces in kernel 3.3, I'd be very keen to push that we
+include PA 2.0 in mga2.
+
+The primary reason for this is jack detection. This has been a big
+feature that has been missing and it's taken a long time and a lot of
+cooperation to get the necessary features merged and available in the
+various layers.
+
+There is still work to do but the key parts will be working. We have
+bugs reported against mga1 regarding this topic.
+
+I'm confident that the changes in PA 2.0 are not risky and as upstream
+I'm in a good position to push updates and fixes later anyway if needed.
+
+Also being involved in an important part of linux plumbing and including
+the fruits of that labour in mga2 is good from a PR perspective (I have
+seen several comments long the lines of "it's good to see Mageia folks
+involved in plumbing" on e.g. lwn.net and similar).
+
+Anyway, this is my justification. I have packages ready to roll.
+
+Can this go it? I think it's worth it.
+
+Col
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
+
+Day Job:
+  Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/
+Open Source:
+  Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/
+  PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/
+  Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
+