Rekindle jack implementation swapping discussion (was Re: Request to join the Debian Multimedia Team)

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 02:34:45PM -0500, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 29 May 2010, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
>
>>>> I want to join the Debian Multimedia Package Maintainers Team. (whatever
>>>> it's called) My alioth username is alexandrequessy-guest.
>>> I also see that you are familiar with jack. The most pressing question
>>> is to if we do want to enable users to switch their jack implementation
> [snip]
>>
>> My current understanding is that, yes, we want it to happen. The main
>> issue is people who know how having the time to make it happen.
>
> IIRC, the consensus was that the squeeze release was way too close to 
> make the drastic changes required for this to happen.  That it would need 
> to happen after that.

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2010-April/009046.html

That contained Adrian putting his foot down to stop the debate and say:
"we switch to jackd2 now". No one disagreed.

But, he went on to say we could then still try to make the swapping
possible in time for squeeze.

Maybe I misuderstood, am misremembering or missed some further
discussion.

-edrz