On Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 1:35:06 PM UTC-5, Botond Ballo wrote: > Based on this new information, might there be room to reconsider this > decision?
Even if you do not reconsider the full decision, could you at least turn it back on for v52, so it can ride the ESR train? This has also been mentioned in the bug in question. This would give users a longer period of time to try and transition to PulseAudio or find a solution like apulse to keep Firefox audio working for them. And it would give you more time to accept patches on the ALSA backend, without impeding work on the 5.1 audio support for PulseAudio. Users would have to consciously choose to use the ESR version once v53 comes out, hence you will be sure that they will be aware of the potential dropping of ALSA support. It seems a simple fix to give the disgruntled users something and ease hostilities, making things easier on all the devs involved, and give the users a feeling that Mozilla listens, so they won't have another reason to leave. Clearly a lot of people are affected. A lot of smaller distros use Firefox as their default, and do not want to include PulseAudio which adds a further complication and is unnecessary for nearly every other Linux app. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
