[Desktop_architects] Making Sound On Linux Just Work

Leon Shiman leon at magic.shiman.com
Tue Dec 13 14:14:59 PST 2005


we did this openly in x.org in 1999/2000. those documents might be a good 
place for a sublist to start.

leon


>Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:09:42 -0500
>From: Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>
>Subject: Re: [Desktop_architects] Making Sound On Linux Just Work
>To: Leon Shiman <leon at magic.shiman.com>
>Cc: desktop_architects at lists.osdl.org
>
>On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 15:36 -0500, Leon Shiman wrote:
>> Ignoring the 5 years of work that was done on MAS 
>> (http://www.MediaApplicationServer.net) - with the endorsement and 
>> participation of the Sun, IBM, HP, Hummingbird, and WRQ sponsors of 
X.Org, 
>> may be a little shortsighted - don't you think?
>
>I am not ignoring any work. I am trying to come up with a requirement
>set that isn't based on any given implementation or technologies. Once
>we get requirements worked out, we can start to look at what
>technologies seem relevant. At this point, the information presented at
>the MAS web site is way too low level. 
>
>> It is also useful to ask just which user's needs are being represented? 
What 
>> is the first target for an audio/media capability as an integral desktop 
>> technology? 
>
>There is no first target. Current linux desktops support many different
>classes of users, most of them dismally.
>
>> Prioritization of requirements is a necessary first step.
>
>You cannot prioritize requirements when you do not know what they are.
>If you do know what they are, add them to the list, or edit the list, or
>whatever is appropriate.
>
>--p
>
>
>




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