Hi all, [please CC replies to me, I'm subscribed, but have mail delivery disabled, and sorry for the length]
This is an exploratory email in order to test the waters of the FOSS flash community, since osflash.org seems to be an intersection of lots of people. So, I have some questions: Do any of you use Debian GNU/Linux* or debian derivatives like knoppix / progeny / xandros / ubuntu / etc? If lots of osflash stuff was packaged for debian would anyone follow the latest versions in unstable/sid or testing/etch and report bugs and so on? * http://debian.org Are there any debian developers/maintainers or people with debian packaging knowledge (or general packaging knowledge) here? Are most osflash projects portable to GNU/Linux? Would developers of osflash projects accept patches sent by debian to improve portability and add features and fix bugs and so on? Can anyone think of any other questions debian should ask of osflash? What will osflash get out of debian? Binary packages for 11 or so architectures of Linux, and for i386 FreeBSD / NetBSD / Hurd, including all the portability work and autobuilding that comes with that. More users and more eyes for bugs and more hands and brains for writing patches. A bit of fanaticism about licencing, so only stuff conforming to the DFSG* and depending only on DFSG-conforming stuff will be allowed into main (we have contrib and non-free for bits that violate this). * http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines Any questions about the above? Some packages we already have in debian, or did have at one stage: ming (seems to have been removed during the development of sarge - woody has 0.2a.cvs20020110-1) swfdec (0.3.4 in sid) gplflash (0.4.13 in sid) flashplugin-nonfree (7.0.25-5 in non-free) Would someone like to put together a priority list for people who will package stuff for debian? I have some ideas on how this would work: We would have a central mailing list for discussion of packaging issues, and have an svn space for projects to maintain their debian packaging bits, so that all the flash packages can be group maintained, in a similar way to the perl modules in debian and several other types of packages are maintained. Any other suggestions? If some of the above is answered favourably, then: I'll start a project on alioth.debian.org for this. I'll start packaging some of the more high priority packages (starting with finding out why ming was removed and getting it back in if appropriate). I'll post a call-out to the debian-devel mailing list in addition to the package maintainers of ming, swfdec, gplflash and flashplugin-nonfree in order to get more maintainers for this project. We'll get on with packaging flash stuff and keeping it up to date :) The etch release will have better flash support than any other distro out there! Debian will rule the world of flash! ;) (insert more unrealistic goals) Also, is there any reason osflash.org hasn't been on slashdot.org yet? Seems like the various projects might attract a few developers. Also, debian-unofficial.org might be a good place to distribute binary-only flash pieces from. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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