Re: [libreoffice-website] Mysterium jitsissimum tremendum et fascinans

Emiliano Vavassori kirjoitti 22.4.2020 klo 23.45:
> Hi Ilmari,
>
> Il 22/04/20 20:18, Ilmari Lauhakangas ha scritto:
> > What's up with the wild world of conference calls? Let's have a look at
> > the past, present and future of TDF's Jitsi.
>
> Thanks for the recap and the overview for the next future.
>
> I still support the idea that Jitsi will help us so much in making
> public meetings with 20+ people. I'm looking forward for the next
> iterations, to see if implementations done by Infra team has the
> expected impact on the user experience. Nonetheless, I see this is too
> much bound to client settings to be "stable" by itself.
>
> Calling Firefox out of the games from the start seems harsh, though. We
> can state that due to implementation issues with the regards of Firefox,
> you may use it if in version >77 or with simulcast disabled (we should
> provide docs to disable it, at least a link). Plus we should briefly
> clarify that, if indications are not followed, esp. on the FF side, it
> would thrash others' experience.
>
> For sure, we should give much stricter/clearer indications on how to
> join the meeting for the sake of the quality perceived by all of the
> participants. Maybe building a wiki page (to be pointed out when calling
> public meetings) on how to access the Jitsi instance with these caveats
> (and the other ones pointed out before by Cloph) may quicken and ease it
> usage, making it also a public point. Ideally, showing it before joining
> the room would increase also its effectiveness (at least the first time).

I wrote the recap at this time, because it seems to me that the problems 
with browser diversity are essentially solved. Simulcast for stable 
Firefox is disabled in the up-to-date Jitsi Meet we use and even though 
it was supposed to relate to video, it seems to coincide with having no 
problems anymore in an audio-only call. I will continue to join various 
meetings with stable Firefox to see, if people have a degraded experience.

I don't see a need to create documentation for this or mention it: even 
if Firefox 75 would continue to cause problems, we only have a bit over 
1 month to 77. On the contrary, we can stop warning about browser diversity.

I focused on Firefox, but Safari support is being improved as well.

Ilmari

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