Hi all, There have been a few discussions recently about getting a solid roadmap organised for the next medium term of PA development. While the stable-queue stuff has been bubbling along nicely enough, there are several new features in the 1.x master branch but no real timescales decided. There are quite a few willing people out there these days which is really encouraging, but we need to get a solid focus on when to expect releases and what we hope to achieve in each one. This email is the start of that process. In addition, there is the LAC conference[1] in Dublin (or just outside) in May and there is already plans for quite a few PA developers and interested parties attending. I will book my flights very soon, but if there are several of us going, then I wonder if it would make sense to try and have a "sprint day" before the conference (or after) to see if we can all sit down in once place and concentrate on stuff for a little while. Being in one pace would probably help a lot with certain discussions and really help progress. So this email is really about two things: 1. Planning a time for an IRC meeting on the near term Road Map. 2. Discussions if a "sprint day" at LAC is possible (so we can book flights. With regards to IRC meeting, I propose initially that we do this next week sometime (the sooner the better). For the sake of argument, I'll pick a time: 11am UTC Thursday 24th. Other timing suggestions welcome. I'd expect it to take at least 1h but probably less than 2h and it would be good if people involved could be fairly focused during the meeting window. I'll prepare an agenda and ensure that notes/logs are taken (with a meetbot) and made available afterwords. We will likely use a new IRC channel for this but anyone who wants to sit in, lurk or actively particpate would be most welcome. Q: Is this time suitable for everyone (Lennart in particular)? With regards to LAC, David has already indicated he'll have to leave on the Sunday (after the conf which is on Fri/Sat), so if no-one has any objections, I'll propose that we have a Sprint day on Thursday 5th May (ideally so people can arrive on Wed evening or early Thursday so we get the full day). How would that fit for everyone? I've no idea about space/location, but I'm sure something can be arranged, even if it's just in the corner of a pub! Perhaps this can just be incorporated into the Fri/Sat programme anyway and a separate day is not needed? Having not been before, I'm not sure how "practical" the conf is and whether the extra day would be needed or beneficial, but my general thoughts would be "more time = more code", so an extra day could still be nice! Q: Lennart, are you going to LAC (I kinda assume so!) Have you booked your flights yet, and could a sprint day be incorporated into your plans? Comments and feedback welcome, but with LAC in particular, feedback would be welcomed ASAP so people can book their flights (the sooner the cheaper usually!). FWIW, the things most interesting me personally (and things that I will hopefully find time to actively work on!) will be the routing priority lists I've talked about in the past and how to incorporate that into the core, jack sensing, how to deal with the various virtual sinks in UI friendly ways, and how to query what sinks a card profile would produce without activating it (essentially higher level things that lead to good user experience/tools/UI). All the best Col [1] http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2011/?page=about -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie 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/]
