On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 16:03 +0200, David Henningsson wrote: > Ok, I'll start with some topics I would like to have discussed and/or > decided upon at our conference. David and Tanu have covered most of what I had in mind, but there's a couple more from me: * User experience We've come a long way from in terms of being invisible to users (as we should be), but I still see a large number of people facing difficulties, often in "standard bugs". This includes programs grabbing the ALSA device, tsched=0 fixes, port switching, running mpd, and probably others that I can't remember. What I'd like to discuss is ways for us to deal with these sort of problems and help solve them quickly. My current thinking is some sort of program/script to help people quickly pin point problems and find solutions. This is really matter of automating the standard diagnostics we ask for on IRC, and documenting the standard solutions. (David pointed me to Ubuntu's diagnostic tool, which is a good starting point) Perhaps others have better ideas to deal with this. * Testing I would like to see us adding more tests -- the amount of code/features that we add is much much larger that corresponding tests. Part of the problem is that there is still missing infrastructure to make this easy enough (we don't have an automated way to test that playback actually works, for example). Deng's work during the GSoC should make a lot of things a lot easier, so this would likely just be a small discussion about what kind of extensions we need, and maybe finding some way to tie that up into a CI system if possible. Cheers, and looking forward to seeing you there this week! Arun
