Re: Merging new audio functionality into Octave

[John W. Eaton]

On 10/01/2013 12:50 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 11:10:13 -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
> > On 10/01/2013 10:24 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2013-10-01 at 09:34 -0400, Mike Miller wrote:
> > > > I'm interested to hear how the maintainers feel about merging the new
> > > > audio functionality that was developed for GSoC into Octave.
> > >
> > >
> > > More generally, I think we should start merging in *all* of our GSoC
> > > code. It doesn't look like we failed any student who coded throughout
> > > GSoC, so we should take this as an indication that we consider their
> > > contributions viable.
> >
> >
> > I'm not comfortable with merging all GSoC contributions this close to the
> > release.  I'd like to take a look at them first.
>
> If I prepare a branch of the audio work for you to review by some date
> (how close is "this close" now?), is there a possibility that you will
> be willing to look at it and merge it for this upcoming release or
> would you prefer to put it off regardless? IOW, should I bother
> putting effort into getting it ready in the day or so or just let it
> sit?

Audio functionality is a good candidate for the release, I'd just like 
to look at it first.  The things you mentioned about configure options 
should probably all be done before the release though.  How long do you 
think those change will take?

jwe