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GStreamer

As we agreed on at GUADEC, I set forth to make a new GStreamer release this weekend, this time without the help of Uraeus and Omega.

Overall, it went quite well, but it was very painful. GStreamer is a beast to compile. Luckily I've been forcing myself as of late to formalize the release process and that practice has been bearing fruit. The only really painful stuff left is things like

• GStreamer is big, takes long to compile
• I try to test everything : RPM installs, garnome installs, concurrent with old installs, ...
• SourceForge is pretty SLOW to work with overall when doing quick fixes
• learning how to branch properly in CVS
• People not testing prerelease tarballs, causing me to re-release already released final tarballs, which I know will bite me in the ass later.

My goal was to make a release that worked well with RhythmBox as it is at the moment, and I think I did pretty well overall. Got louie from Ximian to install it from RPM's, and it seems to work, though with some errors.

RhythmBox looks really sexy, and I have high hopes for it. It's also the best app using GStreamer at the moment. I hope it will do well.

Now that Uraeus has returned and Erik will get back soon as well we can concentrate on some of the tasks at hand, and I hope I never have to release on my own again !

Next focus points for GStreamer : setting up a Red Carpet channel, cleaning the docs, bringing the plug-ins in line with the core, and hopefully start working on decent clocking and event systems.

GStreamer As we agreed on at GUADEC, I set forth to make a new GStreamer release this weekend, this time without the help of Uraeus and Omega. Overall, it went...