The PulseAudio maintainers (me, Arun Raghavan and Georg Chini) started to have fortnightly patch prioritization meetings. As a result, the patches that are waiting for review are now ordered by priority, which helps us to focus on the important stuff, and the list is public, so it makes easier to answer questions like “when is my patch going to be reviewed”. The list can be seen here: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/PatchStatus/
It was reported that the pulseaudio man page contained outdated information about running the daemon with real-time scheduling. I improved the documentation.
I revieved a bunch of small patches:
- Timo Gurr made it possible to disable the installation of shell scripts.
- Rolf Eike Beer made patch that changes how temporary runtime file paths are constructed. The patch uses the “runstatedir” build variable instead of “localstatedir”, but the new variable is not universally supported, and the patch didn’t provide a fallback, so the patch was not merged at this time.
- David Heidelberg made a couple of cleanups to the Meson build system.
- Wim Taymans added an “xauthority” argument to the X11 modules, which is required on some systems to be able to authenticate to the X11 server.
- Arun Raghavan changed the GitLab CI configuration so that updating the CI container image is easier.
I also did some light review on Hui Wang’s stream routing patches (Georg Chini did the main in-depth review). These patches improve the routing behaviour in multiple situations. So far it has been so that if the user moves an application stream once, module-stream-restore remembers that choice forever and it’s not possible to return the application back to default routing. Now if the user moves a stream to the current default sink, the stream switches back to default routing. Another change is that streams now move automatically when the default sink changes, which is probably the biggest improvement of the patch set.
I finished updating PulseAudio in OpenEmbedded to version 13.0, and I started updating the ALSA recipes to 1.2.1.
This post was originally written on 2019-12-10, and first made available to my Patreon supporters. Speaking of Patreon – I’m using crowdfunding in an attempt to make it financially sustainable to continue my volunteer work as a PulseAudio maintainer. If you’d like to help, check out my Patreon page (or Liberapay).
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