PulseAudio Meeting: 24th February 2011 (Completed)

• Time: 17:00 UTC (Availability Doodle)
• Location: IRC #pulseaudio-meeting (Freenode)

Meeting Notes

The meeting was held in two parts 2h + 2h Break + 3h. Many thanks for everyone involved. I appreciate this was a long meeting, but if we do this a bit more regularly, we'll likely have a lot less to discuss next time!

Feb 24 17:08:24 <coling> #startmeeting
Feb 24 17:08:25 <pulsator> Meeting started Thu Feb 24 17:08:25 2011 UTC. The chair is coling. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot.
Feb 24 17:08:26 <pulsator> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic.
Feb 24 17:08:47 <coling> #topic PulseAudio Development and Roadmap Meeting

Feb 24 18:58:25 <pulsator> Meeting ended Thu Feb 24 18:58:24 2011 UTC. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot . (v0.1.4)
Feb 24 18:58:25 <pulsator> Minutes: http://colin.guthr.ie/meetings/pulseaudio-meeting/2011/pulseaudio-meeting.2011-02-24-17.08.html
Feb 24 18:58:25 <pulsator> Minutes (text):http://colin.guthr.ie/meetings/pulseaudio-meeting/2011/pulseaudio-meeting.2011-02-24-17.08.txt
Feb 24 18:58:25 <pulsator> Log: http://colin.guthr.ie/meetings/pulseaudio-meeting/2011/pulseaudio-meeting.2011-02-24-17.08.log.html

Feb 24 21:02:17 <coling> #startmeeting
Feb 24 21:02:18 <pulsator> Meeting started Thu Feb 24 21:02:17 2011 UTC. The chair is coling. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot.
Feb 24 21:02:18 <pulsator> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic.
Feb 24 21:02:32 <coling> #topic PulseAudio Roadmap and Development Meeting Part II

Feb 25 00:01:39 <pulsator> Meeting ended Fri Feb 25 00:01:38 2011 UTC. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot . (v0.1.4)
Feb 25 00:01:39 <pulsator> Minutes: http://colin.guthr.ie/meetings/pulseaudio-meeting/2011/pulseaudio-meeting.2011-02-24-21.02.html
Feb 25 00:01:39 <pulsator> Minutes (text):http://colin.guthr.ie/meetings/pulseaudio-meeting/2011/pulseaudio-meeting.2011-02-24-21.02.txt
Feb 25 00:01:39 <pulsator> Log: http://colin.guthr.ie/meetings/pulseaudio-meeting/2011/pulseaudio-meeting.2011-02-24-21.02.log.html

== Agenda ==

• Code
  • Release Plan/Schedule: When, where, what, who?
  • Features: What's going into 1.0?
    • Passthrough: What's Left? Approx. time needed?
    • D-Bus Protocol: Is it finalised? Approx. time needed?
    • Mixer Rewrite (diwic)

      *   
      

      https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2011-January/008716.html

    • AEC
    • +11dB: Standardising on volume "overdrive"

      *   
      

      https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2010-April/006945.html
      https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2010-April/006950.html
      https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2010-October/007965.html

    • Dealing with Profiles, Ports and Virtual Sinks (in GUIs)
    • Priority lists

      *   
      

      http://colin.guthr.ie/2010/02/this-is-the-route-to-hell/

    • Per-stream volumes on Source Outputs
    • Headphone Jack detection (related to above in some capacity)
    • UCM Support

      *   
      

      https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2011-February/008960.html

    • Orc-ified volume scaling good to pull?
• Specific Patches

  * Win32: Can others please ACK Maarten's patches? (is pa_read/write swallowing certain errors (EINTR) OK after <a href="https://github.com/mkbosmans/pulseaudio/commit/821562b9bc8d1a9033daaae0fd5373498a085054">converting to pa_read/write</a>?) 
        *   
  

  https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2011-January/008681.html

  * Log Target code (ACK/NAK - Should be quick) 
        *   
  

  original mail: https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2010-November/008276.html
  updated patches: https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2011-February/009094.html

  * Infinite Loop in Mainloop 
        *   
  

  https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2011-January/008607.html

  * LADSPA (two similar patches for multichannel support: Who can review properly?) 
  

• Specific Problems

  * Sound Going weird (coling) Is it a PA problem or HDA? `pasuspender echo` fixes it (e.g. close/reopen). Anyone else? 
        *   
  

  http://colin.guthr.ie/weird-sound/

  * D-Bus reconnection issues (stops USB and profile switching from working due to D-Bus Device Reservation failing) 
        *   
  

  https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2010-November/008163.html

• Participation
  • Git committers
  • Releases (Colin for pavucontrol, For PA stable and even 1.0 still just Lennart?)
  • Better (or consistent/reliable) time allocation for the Lennart Resource (e.g. couple hours each week at known times when we can bug you!)
  • Future, regular meetings like this?
• Infrastructure
  • IRC (Channel Registration)
  • Trac + Website: Server admin.
  • Git Repository
  • Continuous Automated Build and Integration