2012-10-30 18:58, Colin Guthrie skrev: > '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: I'm trying to refit the schedule with the topics from you and Arun, but I'm wondering if you could elaborate a little on the ones below I've marked "new", and if possible an estimation of how much time it would need? Thanks! > > * System-Wide audio support (Tanu already mentioned) Covered in existing topic (Combining system-wide and per-user modes) > * Unified ALSA config xdistro New > * Base Volume options New > * Priority Lists Covered in existing topic (Routing priority list infrastructure) > * Flash (specifically Recording) New > * 2.1 Profiles Covered in exisiting topic (Surround sound) > > Trivial: > * Remove HAL?, Planning for a major bump? New > * Disable esound by default New > > -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. https://launchpad.net/~diwic
