On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 11:27 +0000, 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 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 the 0.8 days. And they illustrate the problem with nobody working on the 0.8 stuff anymore. > > To me the big issue is not comparing the 0.8 vs 0.10 bug count, not that > > there is more bugs currently with 0.10, just different (and easier to > > fix), but which branch will see significant improvements and bugfixes > > going forward. 0.8 is not that branch and if we don't switch now, GNOME > > is stuck with a mostly dead 0.8 branch for the next 6-9 months. > > Currently the only thing happening in 0.8 is the applying of a few > > submitted patches, but no work is being done on the big hard issues, > > like improving the threading problems which causes all the random > > crashes people experience with 0.8 Totem for instance. > > Ronald filed about 10 GStreamer backend bugs in Totem. The progress on > those will be a good way to check on the progress for 2.14. Sure, Tim will be working on fixing these issues. Christian _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list