From kde-core-devel Wed Sep 25 11:24:56 2013 From: "Aaron J. Seigo" Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 11:24:56 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Fwd: looking for phonon gstreamer maintainer Message-Id: <1640698.gE8HNqv1lu () freedom> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=138010831810473 On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 12:35:25 Harald Sitter wrote: > since everyone who ever was/is/wanted to be Phonon GStreamer > maintainer is either busy or has no interest in it, the backend has as > of right now no actual maintenance. you may not get much a reply without some more information: * is there some underlying reason why there is no interest in maintaining Phonon GStreamer? e.g. is there a GStreamer annoyance that needs to be known about / taken into consideration? * what are the real-world ramifications of not having GStreamer support? which platforms might suffer due to a lack of integration / codec support / etc as a result? * what effort is currently required to support Phonon GStreamer? Is it stable and needing continued testing and bug fixing maintenance; is it need of more major surgery; is the big work ahead a port to Qt5 or a change in Phonon? -- Aaron J. Seigo