Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-22 Thread Thomas Vander Stichele
Hi, Without any of this, people will just switch back to totem-xine or other, non-GNOME apps like always, or just continue self-confirming that Linux sucks. Very disappointing after my hard work to make GStreamer not totally suck from an end user's point of view. Basically a total year

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-19 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 12:44 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote: So, here's my proposal: Ship with 0.10. Have everything default to it. Also include 0.8 in the ftp directory, but not used. Include a big old section in the release notes explaining the situation and letting people know that they can

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-19 Thread Elijah Newren
On 1/18/06, Elijah Newren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/15/06, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, So, the release team messed up and didn't keep close enough tabs on everything, resulting in discovering an issue pretty late. We need to try to find rough consensus in the

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-19 Thread Elijah Newren
On 1/19/06, Bob Kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The transmogrify script/patch fails during build with the following error: Did you run autogen.sh after running the transmogrify script? Works for me, when also using autogen... ___ desktop-devel-list

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-19 Thread Bob Kashani
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 13:09 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote: On 1/19/06, Bob Kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The transmogrify script/patch fails during build with the following error: Did you run autogen.sh after running the transmogrify script? Works for me, when also using autogen...

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-19 Thread Ronald S. Bultje
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 10:44 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote: Okay, so this is now official; Gstreamer 0.10 is the plan for Gnome 2.14. There's only one minor change to my proposal above, namely that instead of adding unsed 0.8 tarballs to ftp just refer to them in the important notice in the

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-19 Thread Bob Kashani
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 12:52 -0800, Bob Kashani wrote: On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 13:09 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote: On 1/19/06, Bob Kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The transmogrify script/patch fails during build with the following error: Did you run autogen.sh after running the

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-19 Thread Elijah Newren
On 1/19/06, Bob Kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 12:52 -0800, Bob Kashani wrote: On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 13:09 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote: On 1/19/06, Bob Kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The transmogrify script/patch fails during build with the following error:

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-19 Thread Elijah Newren
On 1/19/06, Elijah Newren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Appears to be an errant 'm' character at the very beginning of gnome-media-2.13.6/grecord/src/gsr-window.c... any chance we could get an updated tarball with that fixed? I hope I didn't step on any toes or do anything inappropriate but since

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-18 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 16:14 -0500, Luis Villa wrote: JWZ is an ass, and has been for a long time. If forced to take the admittedly unpleasant choice between overwhelming maintainers so that they never look at bugzilla at all, or incorrectly closing bugs which might be reopened later, we

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-18 Thread Elijah Newren
On 1/15/06, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, So, the release team messed up and didn't keep close enough tabs on everything, resulting in discovering an issue pretty late. We need to try to find rough consensus in the community. So, here's my understanding of this thread and the

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-18 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 00:22 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: Is GNOME 2.10 maintained? The way things are, that's almost equivalent to asking whether any distributions with long-running support commitments ever shipped GNOME 2.10. We already discussed this once:

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-18 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 14:06 -0500, Luis Villa wrote: His tantrum was on our extremely irresponsible transition from 1.x to 2.0, where no one bothered to see if there were regressions, we didn't provide a migration path for user's settings, we didn't write migration documents for all the

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Federico Mena Quintero We need to mock, ridicule, and ostracise distributions which don't commit their patches for non-HEAD versions of GNOME to CVS. I will get the rubber chicken. A while back, someone mentioned they had a script that polled for patches in various distro packages

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-18 Thread Kjartan Maraas
ons, 18,.01.2006 kl. 12.44 -0700, skrev Elijah Newren: On 1/15/06, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, So, the release team messed up and didn't keep close enough tabs on everything, resulting in discovering an issue pretty late. We need to try to find rough consensus in the

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-17 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Vincent, On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 22:42 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Well, the question is: is GStreamer 0.8 totally unmaintained? Yup. I had understood that Ronald was planning to make a new release with some fixes, so that's why I proposed to not close the bugs. I don't know what Ronald's

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-17 Thread Frederic Crozat
Le mardi 17 janvier 2006 à 10:48 +0100, Andy Wingo a écrit : Hi Vincent, On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 22:42 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Well, the question is: is GStreamer 0.8 totally unmaintained? Yup. Thanks for all the people running deployed software running Gstreamer 0.8 :( -- Frederic

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Frederic Crozat Le mardi 17 janvier 2006 à 10:48 +0100, Andy Wingo a écrit : Hi Vincent, On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 22:42 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Well, the question is: is GStreamer 0.8 totally unmaintained? Yup. Thanks for all the people running deployed software

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-17 Thread Ronald S. Bultje
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 08:00 -0500, Frederic Crozat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le mardi 17 janvier 2006 10:48 +0100, Andy Wingo a crit : On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 22:42 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Well, the question is: is GStreamer 0.8 totally unmaintained? Yup. Thanks for all the people

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-17 Thread Kjartan Maraas
ons, 18,.01.2006 kl. 00.22 +1100, skrev Jeff Waugh: quote who=Frederic Crozat Le mardi 17 janvier 2006 à 10:48 +0100, Andy Wingo a écrit : Hi Vincent, On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 22:42 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Well, the question is: is GStreamer 0.8 totally unmaintained? Yup.

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-17 Thread Frederic Crozat
Le mercredi 18 janvier 2006 à 00:22 +1100, Jeff Waugh a écrit : quote who=Frederic Crozat Le mardi 17 janvier 2006 à 10:48 +0100, Andy Wingo a écrit : Hi Vincent, On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 22:42 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Well, the question is: is GStreamer 0.8 totally unmaintained?

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-17 Thread Thomas Vander Stichele
Hi, Is GNOME 2.10 maintained? If you want to do an analogy, you should ask : is GNOME 2.12 maintained ? ;) No - since GNOME 2.14 is not out yet. The question is - is GNOME maintaining more than one stable branch at any point ? After discussing on irc, it seems not everybody has the

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-17 Thread Brian Cameron
Vincent/Glynn: On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 07:28 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: + quite a few people were assuming that 0.10 was the plan for 2.14 and were totally unaware that 0.8 had even been on the plan. Ubuntu and Fedora development versions (i.e. the distros that Elijah checked or found

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-16 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 07:28 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: + quite a few people were assuming that 0.10 was the plan for 2.14 and were totally unaware that 0.8 had even been on the plan. Ubuntu and Fedora development versions (i.e. the distros that Elijah checked or found out

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-16 Thread Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
Hi, Well Tim is working on just fixing Totem and gnome-media for 0.10 and will continue to do so for the next months at the minimum. Up to now his progress have been slow due to having to port over plugins for 0.8 as part of his porting effort, but now that this is mostly taken care of he can

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-16 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 11:59 +0100, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote: Hi, Well Tim is working on just fixing Totem and gnome-media for 0.10 and will continue to do so for the next months at the minimum. Up to now his progress have been slow due to having to port over plugins for 0.8 as

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-16 Thread Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 11:27 +, Bastien Nocera wrote: The problem is that the stuff that used to work doesn't anymore. Well stuff that used to cause crashes in 0.8 doesn't anymore, so it goes both ways. And there are over 80 opened bugs against the Totem GStreamer backend, most of them

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-16 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi Christian, Le lundi 16 janvier 2006 à 14:45 +0100, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller a écrit : And there are over 80 opened bugs against the Totem GStreamer backend, most of them should be either fixed in Totem, reassigned to GStreamer, or put on NEEDINFO (against 20 for the xine-lib

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-16 Thread Thomas Vander Stichele
Hi, Of those 80 most are from the 0.8 days. And they illustrate the problem with nobody working on the 0.8 stuff anymore. So, can we hope that some of you (Tim?) Let's not shovel too much dirt on Tim yet :) We're already passing him all of the hot potatoes. Tim's focusing on the 0.10

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-16 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 16 janvier 2006 à 07:34 +0100, Vincent Untz a écrit : Le lundi 16 janvier 2006 à 07:28 +0100, Vincent Untz a écrit : It is possible to have both 0.8 and 0.10 installed at the same time, so the decision could be to ship both and have modules use 0.10 if it works for them and

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-16 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 16 janvier 2006 à 21:07 +0100, Thomas Vander Stichele a écrit : Hi, Of those 80 most are from the 0.8 days. And they illustrate the problem with nobody working on the 0.8 stuff anymore. So, can we hope that some of you (Tim?) Let's not shovel too much dirt on Tim yet

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-16 Thread Tim Müller
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 21:04 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: And there are over 80 opened bugs against the Totem GStreamer backend, most of them should be either fixed in Totem, reassigned to GStreamer, or put on NEEDINFO (against 20 for the xine-lib backend). Of those 80 most are from

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-16 Thread Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
Hi Vincent, So the dual 0.8/0.10 thing for gnome-media has been discussed and our opinion was that we didn't want Tim to waste time working on a dual backend system when he already had a lot on his plate. Personally I think we should make 2.13 releases using 0.10. If the release team decide that

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-16 Thread Tim Müller
They could use basic triaging in the sense that someone should go through them and see what applies to the 0.10 version. I think that you'd find most GStreamer bug triagers to mark them as obsolete if they apply only to the 0.8 backend though, and I don't know if that's what you want

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-16 Thread Elijah Newren
On 1/16/06, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They could use basic triaging in the sense that someone should go through them and see what applies to the 0.10 version. I think that you'd find most GStreamer bug triagers to mark them as obsolete if they apply only to the 0.8 backend

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-16 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 16 janvier 2006 à 21:44 +0100, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller a écrit : Hi Vincent, So the dual 0.8/0.10 thing for gnome-media has been discussed and our opinion was that we didn't want Tim to waste time working on a dual backend system when he already had a lot on his plate.

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-16 Thread Luis Villa
On 1/16/06, Elijah Newren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/16/06, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They could use basic triaging in the sense that someone should go through them and see what applies to the 0.10 version. I think that you'd find most GStreamer bug triagers to mark them

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-16 Thread Elijah Newren
On 1/16/06, Elijah Newren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See http://blogs.gnome.org/view/newren/2005/09/30/0 for more details where I'm coming from, but I'm basically going to disagree with Vincent here -- I think it should be perfectly fine to mark all those bugs as obsolete and tell the reporter

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-16 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 16 janvier 2006 à 13:52 -0700, Elijah Newren a écrit : On 1/16/06, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They could use basic triaging in the sense that someone should go through them and see what applies to the 0.10 version. I think that you'd find most GStreamer bug

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-16 Thread Thomas Vander Stichele
Hi, Well, if all other changes that have been done/will be done in 2.13 are only fixes that can go in 2.12, then I guess it's okay. Thomas also proposed to add a patch for GStreamer 0.10 support in CVS and a configure switch that would apply the patch. My proposal was slightly different;

GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-15 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi all, So, the release team messed up and didn't keep close enough tabs on everything, resulting in discovering an issue pretty late. We need to try to find rough consensus in the community. Some background on the problem: + http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirteen_2fDesktop (and the jhbuild

Re: GStreamer version for 2.14

2006-01-15 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 16 janvier 2006 à 07:28 +0100, Vincent Untz a écrit : It is possible to have both 0.8 and 0.10 installed at the same time, so the decision could be to ship both and have modules use 0.10 if it works for them and otherwise use 0.8. Or maybe support both with a configure switch.