Hi,
> > I've done a little presentation for Tokyo-area Debian meeting[1] last week.
> > I've translated the resource into English[2].
> >
> > It's a summary of what I've been doing and where I want to go from
> > now, and an introduction to what the Debian scene currently looks like.
> >
> > I would be interested in what you think about the presentation, and
> > what might be missing from my perspective.
> >
> >
> >
> > [1] http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/2005-debianmeeting.html.en
> >
> > [2]
> > http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/data/debianmeetingresume200602-pres
> >entation-uekawa-english.pdf
>
> Yes, there's a couple of pieces that stood out for attention:
>
> """
> DAW: Debian Audio Workstation An uneducated attempt to use Debian to perform
> recording and mastering with many audio tracks. It was known
> to be a
> difficult path until beginning of 2006. With improvement of real-time
> response times, it became popular by year 2007... (hope)
> """
>
> !?!uneducated!?!
>
> Ardour has been useable in Debian for a while now. A/DeMuDi has provided a
> stable (i.e. useable) multimedia distribution since the release of the 1.2
> series. I would s/2006/2005 at least. Debian is already becoming the platform
> of choice for many musicians and sub-distributions like (off the top of my
> head) 64studio, Musix, the Lionstracs Mediastation uses Debian and studio to
> Go! is based on Knoppix. Most of these systems work ootb in most cases.
>
> I realise that you're talking about mainstream Debian here and the remark is
> possibly a little tongue in cheek, but I also you are being a little
> conservative / pessimistic too.
Yup, this is a forward looking statement with tongue-in-cheek,
requesting other developers to participate in debian-multimedia so
that we can have an excellent etch system released by 2007 :).
Tokyo Area Debian Meeting is a meeting held every month targeted at
Debian Developers, and new maintainers in Tokyo area.
>
> """
> DeMuDi/agnula: A project that ran in Europe with some funding for the last
> few
> years. A Multimedia distribution based on Debian.
> """
>
> AGNULA/DeMuDi please! It is a Custom Debian Distribution, a CDD focused on
> multimedia applications. A/DeMuDi is not separate from Debian, it is simply a
> customised way to distribute it. This distinction is _very_ important.
Thanks, fixed.
> """
> Quality assurance. Want to start adding regression testsuites. Most of
> applications I don’t know how to use; starting with researching the usage
> scenarios.
> """
>
> This paragraph needs explaining better, or at least, I need to educate myself
> better. Possibly this is opening up a whole new subject for
> discussion. ?regression testing? ?usage scenarios? Along with identifying who
> the multimedia maintainers are and trying to keep tabs on whether they are
> active or need help. Multimedia QA would be a Good Thing. Count me in.
Background: I'm most interested in QA on Debian as a whole, and always
looking for possibilities of introducing some automated testing to
help a project of this size.
Considering we have a lot of audio-communication protocols, and many
tools support multiple protocols, it's unlikely that all of them will
be tested through each release.
I'm looking for possibilities of automating some of it, and also
facilitating some parts of the manual testing.
As in, "I'm starting to think aloud about this topic, you're welcome
to help."
regards,
junichi
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