Hello Reinhard, and the pkg-multimedia team! 2010/5/29 Reinhard Tartler <siret...@tauware.de>: > On Fr, Mai 28, 2010 at 21:01:04 (CEST), Alexandre Quessy wrote: > >> Hello, >> I want to join the Debian Multimedia Package Maintainers Team. (whatever >> it's called) My alioth username is alexandrequessy-guest. > > I've just added you to the team, welcome on board. >
Thanks a lot! I'm on the IRC channel every week day, if anyone wants to chat with me... :) > I assume that you have already read and understood our wiki pages: > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging > > They are certainly not perfect and need improvements/polishing, but they > at least should document the most important things we've agreed on in > the past. Please help us to improve them by discussions and/or edits! Yes, I am often a wiki gnome that polishes the doc. That should come a little later, when I will be more comfortable with how Debian and the team works. > >> My name is Alexandre Quessy. I am a developer from Montreal. I am >> interested in free software for new media arts, nameyl audio, video and >> electronics. I have been using free software for many years now. I am >> the co-author of some free software projects such as those listed above. >> I am mostly interested in the Python and C++ languages. Amongst the >> tools I like are Twisted, GTK+, GStreamer, gettext, the GNU Autotools, >> bash and vim. I have a strong background in image processing, music >> theory, web development, communication protocols and software process >> management. > > Sounds cool! Are you also familiar with packaging python applications? I > have to admit that I've lost my interest because of the internal python > affair and helper scripts war, so I more or less try to avoid such > packages. Having someone on the team that knows how do package python > apps properly would be a great benefit for pkg-multimedia! Yes, I am currently packaging my first Python package that will be pushed into Debian. For the same reasons as you mentionned, I personaly prefer packaging Python applications with the GNU autotools myself. :) There might be some progress in the next few months, though, with the Distribute fork of the Python setuptools. > > I also see that you are familiar with jack. The most pressing question > is to if we do want to enable users to switch their jack implementation > in squeeze. Currently that's not possible, but ideas how to rearrange > packages, shlibs files and provides have been proposed. I have to admit > that I've lost track and don't know if they are still being considered > of if everyone has lost motivation to actually implement them. Perhaps > you (or someone else) can try to pickup that discussion? > I will forward this to my colleague who knows more than I about the JACK library itself. He developed one of the JACK Gstreamer element, so he should know more than me. I think both JACK and jackdmp (or jack 2?) are API and ABI-compatible... But I am not sure about this at all. > I've already announced on #debian-release a few days ago that we might > require such a transition, but we'd also need to write a more formal > email to debian-release for that. > >> I am motivated to become a Debian maintainer, and soon an uploader. >> Debian and Ubuntu are my favourite operating systems. I have ongoing art >> projects with free software, and you can read about them on >> http://alexandre.quessy.net >> >> Project on which in am author or co-author: >> (I intend to package the three packages listed first.) >> * toonloop: Live frame by frame animation tool http://toonloop.com >> * scenic: Desktop application to stream audio, video and MIDI over RTP >> http://svn.sat.qc.ca/trac/scenic/ >> * lunch: Distributed process launcher http://svn.sat.qc.ca/trac/lunch >> * Other listed on http://bitbucket.org/aalex/ > > Cool! > > Again, welcome to the team! > -- > Gruesse/greetings, > Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list > pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers > Later, -- Alexandre Quessy http://alexandre.quessy.net/ _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
