Reinhard Tartler wrote:
Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
If the debian-multimedia team is indeed dead, we should avoid setting it
in the maintainer field of any package. Nobody is served with
unreachable (or non-existant) maintainers.
Note that the (some?) maintainers are still active AFAICS, it's just that the
list itself isn't useful. I haven't seen much collaboration.
Well, this rather supports my suggestion to not use the mailing list in
the maintainer field, doesn't it?
Not directly, no. However, it does bear further discussion.
The debian-multimedia team currently maintains:
main: aeolus, amb-plugins, ams, amsynth, ardour, ardour-altivec,
ardour-i686, audacity, blepvco, create-resources, das-watchdog,
fil-plugins, flake, fluidsynth-dssi, fusd-kor-source, gigedit, glashctl,
hexter, hydrogen-drumkits, jackd, jackeq, kmidimon, libclalsadrv-dev,
libclalsadrv1, libclthreads-dev, libclthreads2, libclxclient-dev,
libclxclient3, libflake-dev, libfreebob0, libfreebob0-dev, libfusd-dev,
libfusd1, libgavl-dev, libgavl0, libjack-dev, libjack0,
libjack0.100.0-0, libjack0.100.0-dev, ll-scope, mcp-plugins, mhwaveedit,
omins, opencubicplayer*, opencubicplayer-doc*, openmovieeditor,
qtractor, rev-plugins, rosegarden, rosegarden-data, schism*, sineshaper,
stops, traverso*, vco-plugins, vkeybd, wavbreaker, wsynth-dssi, xsynth-dssi
non-free: midisport-firmware
- the majority of which are actively maintained. Currently watching
Aeolus-0.8.1 and Ardour-2.4.1. It looks as if Rosegarden-1.6 is back in
testing. I'm not sure about the status of qtractor. New versions of
libfreebob0 and openmovieeditor are available. I'm sure omins should
have been orphaned along with om-synth, does anyone know of a reason we
should be keeping it? Really we should be packaging Ingen instead. Some
of these: Ardour; Jackd; Rosegarden et al. are flagship multimedia
packages - i.e. they are important to us. (not the same as technically
Important)
Debian-multimedia is a Good Name - an obvious place to look if you don't
otherwise know where to discuss multimedia topics on Debian. The list is
only not useful because none of you use it. Pkg-multimedia-maintainers
is an alioth.debian list, people are not going to subscribe to a list
with a name like that unless they know they need to.
The issue of co-maintenance is more thorny. Ideally, the above packages
should have a proper human maintainer and in fact, some of them do, but
they aren't DDs, which is why we have this confusing hodge-podge instead.
I'd like to see debian-multimedia used to discuss multimedia-specific qa
issues (amongst other stuff), which is what debian-qa (more-or-less)
expects us to be doing. I know this is tantamount to herding cats, but
it should be the appropriate list for everyone involved in multimedia on
Debian to focus on. I'm not sure that this is a good time to dig up the
roses, but I think it would be useful to open up a wide-ranging
discussion of the issues.
cheers,
tim
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