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Re: Joining the Team

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On 27/04/21 10:10 am, Damian Minkov wrote:
> Hi Sunil,
> 
> Sorry for jumping in but I recently answered on the same topic:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760485#54
> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760485#54>
> And here I had attached the dependencies for all the packages
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760485#74
> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760485#74> and as I
> did it half a year ago, half of it had probably already changed... 

Thank you for the additional information. I made myself familiar with
the dependencies for Jitsi Videobridge and I am focusing on that. I
remain undaunted by the big list :) I plan to work on Jitsi Meet later.

> 
> FastTrack sounds good. The current pace is a release every 2-3 months,
> if the new versions can go there directly that sounds like it will solve
> the problem. But, of course, we want to speed up this process. 
> 
> You said: "Once the packages have stabilized enough (over the
> months/years) they can move into unstable/testing/stable. " 
> Looking at the past 5-6 years, there is no such thing as "stabilized
> enough ", I can give you many examples ... and there is one coming in
> August ... PlanB will be dropped off from chrome. So this means whatever
> version you have of jitsi-meet, it will stop working in August and
> everyone needs to update to the latest stable that we even haven't
> started working on yet and probably will be out a month or so earlier. 
> So for the past 5-6 years, this is how things move, every browser
> updates at a 6-week pace, and we basically follow it. So we need to be
> pushing releases every 6 weeks and someone needs to dedicate be working
> on that to update the repositories with the new version and work on
> adding the new dependencies to the official repos ... 
> 

I see. This probably means that jitsi-meet will be in fasttrack for
foreseeable future. I will try to keep the Debian changes/packaging to
the minimal in order to be able to follow the upstream releases closely.

Thanks,

-- 
Sunil

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