On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Daniel Vr=C3=A1til wro= te: > On Wednesday 25 of September 2013 12:35:25 Harald Sitter wrote: >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Harald Sitter >> Date: Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:55 PM >> Subject: looking for phonon gstreamer maintainer >> To: "For discussion of multimedia (sound/video) issues under KDE" >> >> >> >> Ahoy, >> >> 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. >> >> If anyone wishes to step up and move the backend forward now is the >> time to do it. I'd like to note that this is not a one-man job though >> and I am going to continue to be supporting developer. >> >> In the unfortunate case that no one is willing enough we will have to >> look at the possibility of moving the backend out of the support >> scope, leaving Phonon VLC as the only actively supported backend on >> all platforms. >> >> As immediate result I will likely have to demote the backend's initial >> preference for the upcoming 4.7.0 release below Phonon VLC's. > > Hi, > > in Fedora we have a big interest in keeping phonon-gstreamer alive, namel= y > because we can't ship phonon-vlc due to legal issues (you know, US compan= y, > software patents and what not...) and our users would not probably be ver= y > happy if we had no phonon working backend in Fedora KDE. > > So far we are happy with gstreamer-0.10, but we realize that sooner or la= ter > we will have to start looking into supporting gstreamer-1.0. Even if we a= re > able to keep phonon with gstreamer-0.10 alive by patching the hell out of= it > in downstream, at some point we will be forced to drop it, and then we wo= uld > have nothing to switch to. > > So I'm willing to help keeping phonon-gstreamer alive in upstream (I'm no= t > saying I'll be able to fix all the bugs) and slowly look into the gst-1.0= port. > I'm not able to fully maintain yet another project (I already have more t= han > enough :-)), but as said above, I can contribute to keep it alive and pus= h it > over the hill to gstreamer-1.0 (come on, how hard can it be? ;-)) That's great! Some progress is certainly better than no progress :D If you could hop on #kde-multimedia we can coordinate development etc. > Luckily for me, we have a GStreamer guy in the office, so I can get some = help > from him if necessary :) Sebastian Dr=C3=B6ge from GStreamer also offered to help, so we definitely have some GStreamer backing. Yay. HS