On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:10 AM, Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org> wrote: >> >> > The same is perfectly valid for Debian Multimedia: Last change was done >> > at 2011-07-27 (by fsateler)[4] and those both teams are missing a really >> > big chance to get new users / developers by failing to drive by the >> > Debian Wheezy release notes which is regarded by a large user base all >> > over the world. IMHO it is your choice to tell the world: >> > >> > Hey, there are people inside Debian who care about Games / Multimedia >> > and we have all this cool stuff for you. Debian wants to be one of >> > the big distributions in this field. >> > >> > or you can keep on doing your admitedly fine technical work in your >> > teams which are really studious but shyly hidden inside the large >> > package pool of Debian with 30k packages. >> >> Indeed. Unfortunately, we haven't been able to properly leverage the >> blends tools. I wonder how can we find people willing to help out on >> this? I've been thinking of asking in the upstream user lists for >> people that might be interested in helping out defining usable >> metapackages, but I haven't done it yet. Any other ideas? > > Well, I can only tell from my experience: It is not promising just to > talk about the things that should be done. You rather need to do things > yourself and make it popular. You will make mistakes or forget things > and people will give hints how to fix this. You should try to approach > to get something out that makes some sense for the moment. > > If I were you I would definitely go together with Rosea Grammostola who > has created his own metapackge layout at > > https://github.com/johnsen/meta-blends > > which is even rendered at my test-server: > > http://blends.debian.net/meta-blends/tasks/ > > So there *is* somebody who does reasonable work and I'd regard this > more reasonable than > > http://blends.debian.net/multimedia/tasks/ > > which is more or less my poor work according to SVN - sometimes due to > some hints from here. And I would try really hard to verify if it might > make sense to start from scratch with a 1:1 copy of Rosea's work. The > rationale behind this advise is that you need to start with something > that is actually *used* in practise rather than some academic example > created by some poor outsider (as I consider myself). > > As you can see the Blends tools can even work on foreign Git > repositories and you might negotiate with Rosea whether he might like to > lead / join / guide this effort.
Indeed, there are several useful tasks. Some are not within the domain of the pkg-multimedia team, though (the desktop or fluxbox tasks, for example). Rosea, would you like to bring the multimedia-related tasks into debian? We can bring them into the pkg-multimedia git area. Here are some comments as to the tasks that we could bring back: Openstudiopro-admin: Outside pkg-multimedia domain (OD) Openstudiopro-ambisonics: Within doman (WD), but possibly could be merged into other tasks Openstudiopro-composing: WD Openstudiopro-desktop: OD Openstudiopro-devel: OD Openstudiopro-djing: WD Openstudiopro-beat: WD Openstudiopro-firewire: WD Fluxbox: OD Openstudiopro-graphics: Not quite sure, but possibly WD Openstudiopro-guitar: WD Openstudiopro-jack: WD Openstudio-ladi: WD, possibly should be merged with -jack Openstudiopro-looping: WD Openstudiopro-midi: WD Openstudiopro-mixing: WD Openstudiopro-multimedia: WD, could possibly use a better name Openstudiopro-muse2build: OD Openstudiopro-musician: WD Openstudiopro-muscicnotation: WD Openstudiopro-plugins-dssi: WD Openstudiopro-plugins-fst: WD Openstudiopro-plugins-ladspa: WD Openstudiopro-plugins-lv2: WD, all these plugins-* tasks could be merged? Openstudiopro-realtime: Not quite sure, AFAIK a realtime kernel is not needed these days Openstudiopro-recording: WD Openstudiopro-samplers: WD Openstudiopro-soundsynthesis: WD Openstudiopro-synths: WD, could be merged with soundsynthesis Openstudiopro-timestretching: WD, could be merged into plugins? Openstudiopro-trackers: WD Openstudiopro-video: WD -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-multimedia-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAfdZj9KT0Z1TDcLo0BcTj+U63f4+SU78b=c7x9a-knaemw...@mail.gmail.com
