On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > Aaron Griffin wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Do we have a dev here that wants to spend some time with the audio >>> packages? >>> They have not received much love lately... >>> >>> The jackbeat update requires moving portaudio from [community]. We also >>> have ardour that is quite out-of-date but requires adding several deps to >>> the repos. I updated jack-audio-connection-kit, but it also needs a >>> rework >>> of is rc.d script to actually make it useful and I have not had time to >>> address yet (if anybody wants to do this contact me for the details). >>> >>> So, what do we do? Is there a dev who has time and interest to take >>> these >>> over? Otherwise do we bring someone onboard to maintain these packages >>> or >>> encourage someone in the arch-audio group to become a TU and move them to >>> community? >>> >> >> Maybe we should pull on a dev specifically interested in audio on >> linux for things like this. Me, I'm happy as long as I can hear it. >> > > Well, it appears we have no takers for the audio related packages so maybe > bring someone on to do this is a good idea.
Anyone care to right up a draft for a news item? Or do we have anyone in mind?
