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[David Henningsson <david.henningsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As I want to start developing the jack detection and get all of that in 
place well in time for Oneiric, I guess it is time to decide or revisit 
this question.

I feel a little caught between upstream; who mostly develops new 
features in master and could use some help with testing etc, and our 
first duty, which is towards our users - and we definitely don't want an 
unstable PulseAudio.

A few months ago I was hoping for master to stabilise sooner than later, 
but from what I can tell, it currently seems they are no closer to 
releasing 1.0 than they were a few months ago. :-( E g, just a few weeks 
ago a new (mandatory!) dependency was added, so features are still in 
development. (And btw, that means one more library, json-c, to support, 
maintain and ensure stability in.)

Also, we really don't know how stable the two versions are (and even 
less, know how stable they both will be in September-October!), and I'm 
not sure how we can make a reasonably qualified guess.

But just to have a plan, what do you think of the following:
 * If PulseAudio releases 1.0 (from the master branch) before end of 
July, we'll consider it, and re-evaluate the situation. Later than end 
of July, it'd be too late to switch, as Alpha 3 and FeatureFreeze are in 
the beginning of August [1].
 * Stick with stable-queue and for now, assume we're stuck with it for 
Oneiric.

What do you think? Opinions? Comments?

--
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
http://launchpad.net/~diwic

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricReleaseSchedule