Now that this change has hit the release channel, we've started
receiving feedback from a wider range of users, a lot of it in bug
1345661 [1].
I believe the feedback in that thread brings some new information to
the table that we weren't aware of when this decision was made:
- Based on the volume of the feedback we received, and the number
of duplicate bugs and so on, it appears that quoted telemetry data
underestimates the number of users who use ALSA. This is
corroborated by the fact that some of the affected distributions
disable telemetry in their Firefox packages.
- A number of users, particularly those in the audiophile and music
production / recording communities, report technical reasons for
preferring ALSA over PulseAudio.
- We've had an offer from someone to volunteer to maintain the
ALSA backend (bug 1345661 comment 52 [2]).
Based on this new information, might there be room to reconsider this decision?
Cheers,
Botond
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345661
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345661#c52
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Randell Jesup <[email protected]> wrote:
>>I just landed some telemetry to measure the usage of all audio backends,
>>we'll have data soon.
>>
>>This was bug 1280630, and the probe is at [0]. This also measures
>>failures to open a stream and usage of backends that should not be used
>>on certain platform, like winmm on windows vista+.
>>
>>Also I support this proposal.
>
> We have some data now; in Aurora 50 it's 96.5%/3.5%, Nightly 51 is
> 98%/2%
>
> Of course, even Aurora users aren't necessarily "typical" users, but I
> imagine these will not move much in the favor of Alsa in Beta or
> release, and more likely move towards Pulse ("users" are more likely to
> be running plain-jane distros which have Pulse enabled by default - but
> we'll see).
>
> We'll start getting beta results in a few weeks.
>
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