Ok, I'll start with some topics I would like to have discussed and/or decided upon at our conference. * PulseAudio - vision and mission What do we want PulseAudio to be? What are we working for? How important is it for us to be the standard sound server in desktop/laptop as well as the embedded distributions? Other important use cases for PulseAudio? Are some distributions more important than others? Can we unify our visions for where we see PulseAudio in a few years time? * Routing priority list infrastructure - kick off the implementation? A year ago or even more, Colin Guthrie had some ideas [1] on how to improve the routing infrastructure in PulseAudio, which I believe has been generally accepted, but it is still not (fully) implemented. Until it's there, we're hacking around the current limitations with e g modules such as module-switch-on-port-available, have rerouting problems at suspend/resume, etc. So, how do we actually get this implemented? (E g, maybe other people can help out if Colin does not have time to do the implementation?) * Improving low latency behaviour Discussion about how we can make PulseAudio perform better in low latency scenarios, such as VOIP or gaming. In particular, the issue of latency increasing over time (as occasional underruns occur) should be somehow resolved. I have an idea here. * Better drain/underrun reporting behaviour We more than once has got reports that 1) drains take seconds too long to complete 2) underruns are reported before all samples sent have been actually played back, and sometimes a audio glitch can be avoided even when an underrun has been reported to the client. Can we get almost sample accuracy on when we report back that underrun/drain has occurred? * Devices with dynamic capabilities (e g HDMI) HDMI in particular can change its PCM capabilities, i e, maybe you first have one monitor connected that supports 5.1 LPCM, and you then unplug and plug in another one that only supports stereo. How do we update/reprobe/etc PulseAudio accordingly to support this? -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. https://launchpad.net/~diwic [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/RFC/PriorityRouting
