FESCo Meeting Summary for 20090424

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 14:35 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Adam Williamson (awilliam at redhat.com) said: 
> > "I want to select an input channel" is not remotely atypical.
> 
> But then, the solution (in a time-based release system) is to decide
> at the appropriate point that the new code does not hit the required
> feature matrix yet, and shelve the new code until the next release
> where it meets the required feature matrix. (See: Empathy).
> 
> Where the issue arises here is that we've passed that appropriate point
> in the schedule; since we can't push to the next release now, nor do we
> have time to do anything new sanely, I'm not convinced that anything we
> do/add now will be sufficiently better than doing nothing at all.

I think adding an alternative mixer application which doesn't interfere
with the new one in any way (and doesn't break anything significant even
if it somehow fails to work entirely) is a pretty safe and conservative
choice, and that's why FESco agreed to do so. It also confers a
significant benefit, i.e. a way to adjust what needs to be adjusted
without having to use an obscure console application which few people
know how to use or are even aware exists. I mean, look, come on, just
look at it from a pragmatic viewpoint: it's a single package containing
code we've already shipped for multiple releases, which we *know* works.
Heck, it's code Ubuntu 9.04 is shipping as its default mixer
application. What, as slashdot would put it, couldpossiblygowrong?
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