'Twas brillig, and Arun Raghavan at 29/10/12 05:13 did gyre and gimble: > 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! I had a few discussion points noted down in a file I've been keeping for the last few weeks: * System-Wide audio support (Tanu already mentioned) * Unified ALSA config xdistro * Base Volume options * Priority Lists * Flash (specifically Recording) * 2.1 Profiles Trivial: * Remove HAL?, Planning for a major bump? * Disable esound by default -- 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/
