On 04/26/2012 12:49 PM, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > One of the [[Software/PulseAudio/GSoC2012|Google Summer of Code project > ideas for 2012]] was a "configuration system". The configuration system > was not among the selected projects, but the system was seen as a > priority, While I believe that this will probably be something nice to have, on my end I don't see this project as a priority. For me, I would prioritise the stuff that's long overdue: * Get 2.0 out the door * Review/merge the UCM stuff * Implement Colin's priority list routing But if it's really a prerequisite to make the GSoC students productive, I guess there isn't much choice than to get it up and working really fast... >so the plan now is to design and implement the important bits > (the client API and the server-side infrastructure) ourselves within May > 2012 or so (the reason for the tight schedule is that we'd like the GSoC > students to benefit from this new system). Porting the existing > configuration to the new system is not a matter of urgency. All the > existing stuff has to be kept in mind while doing the design, though, so > that the porting work is possible to do when that time comes. Is there a plan for making "when that times comes" != "never"? This is not meaning to be sarcastic - more I'm being curious about your thoughts on the topic. -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. http://launchpad.net/~diwic