RE: Settings API Proposal v3 feedback summary

V4 is now ready. I've posted it on Mercurial for easier reading:

http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/dap/raw-file/tip/media-stream-capture/proposals/SettingsAPI_proposal_v4.html

Thanks! Looking forward to your continued feedback.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Travis Leithead
> Sent: Monday, October 1, 2012 4:37 PM
> To: public-media-capture@w3.org
> Subject: Settings API Proposal v3 feedback summary
> 
> Before preparing the 4th version of the settings API proposal, I thought
> it would be nice to step back and summarize the feedback received on v3.
> I've not been as responsive to responding to individual threads, so I'm
> using this one as an opportunity to aggregate all the feedback into one
> location.
> 
> There was lots of positive responses. Thank you!
> 
> I have a v4 that I'll be releasing shortly, so stay tuned.
> 
> -Travis
> 
> 1  Liked the approach/heading in the right direction [Rich-2] [Stefan-1]
> [Adam-1]
> 2  Are all the various dictionaries values read/write or read-only?
> [Stefan-1]
> 3  Should the constraints/settings be inlined in the spec? (No strong
> preference) [Stefan-1]
> 4  Is this proposal and constraints applied to gUM complimentary? [Stefan-
> 1]
> 5  Establishes a nice "source-of-track" pointer [Randell-1]
> 6  Derivative of an earlier proposal (suggested in [Randell-2]?)
> 7  Doesn't solve multiple consumers competing for changing settings
> [Randell-1] (clarified by [Stefan-2/3])
> 8  Forces all tracks that want changes to have a MediaDevice
> (PeerConnection, Video element src) [Randell-1] [Stefan-2]
> 9  Proposal for unified device/track concept (duck-typing) [Rich-2]
> (comments [Travis-2])
> 10 Liked the prior proposal with immutable track lists over the devices-
> based LMS [Adam-1] [Adam-3]
> 11 takePicture(); how is it related to regular media stream recording?
> [Adam-1]
> 12 Can the *Info dictionaries be exposed to gUM for early device
> filtering? [Adam-1]
> 13 Should align with PeerConnection track ideas/ track-subtypes [Adam-2]
> 14 Additional settings requested [Giridhar-1]
> 15 Proposal on how to scope what settings we expose [Rich-1]
> 16 Idea on how to consolidate/group the settings [Josh-1/2] [Jim-1]
> [Travis-1]
> 17 How do we define interoperable settings (how do we test them)?
> [Frederick-1] [Jim-2]
> 18 How should UA's optionally surface device-specific settings? [Jim-2]
> 19 Re-consider one track-per-type in gUM? [Adam-3]
> 20 Don't hide capabilities behind get/changeSettings APIs [Rich-2]
> (comments [Travis-2])
> 
> [Stefan-1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-
> capture/2012Sep/0000.html
> [Stefan-2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-
> capture/2012Sep/0002.html
> [Stefan-3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-
> capture/2012Sep/0003.html
> [Randell-1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-
> capture/2012Sep/0001.html
> [Randell-2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-
> capture/2012Aug/0044.html
> [Adam-1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-
> capture/2012Sep/0004.html
> [Adam-2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-
> capture/2012Sep/0006.html
> [Adam-3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-
> capture/2012Sep/0005.html
> [Giridhar-1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-
> capture/2012Sep/0008.html
> [Rich-1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-
> capture/2012Sep/0013.html
> [Rich-2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-
> capture/2012Aug/0144.html
> [Josh-1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-
> capture/2012Sep/0017.html
> [Josh-2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-
> capture/2012Sep/0020.html
> [Jim-1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-
> capture/2012Sep/0018.html
> [Jim-2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-
> capture/2012Sep/0022.html
> [Travis-1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-
> capture/2012Sep/0019.html
> [Travis-2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-
> capture/2012Aug/0146.html
> [Frederick-1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-
> capture/2012Sep/0021.html
> 
> Additionally, I'm thinking about the following:
> * How often will settings be changed in bulk vs. one-at-a-time (with user
> feedback)?
> * How will developers know to request another device via gUM? (how will
> they know that more devices are available)?

Received on Wednesday, 3 October 2012 01:11:15 UTC