Hi all, shortly:
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. Mailing list > I suggested to use [email protected] as general > discussion list (for instance for discussion like this) for a Debian > Multimedia Blend and for an entry point of users to talk to the > package developers. This list has turned out to be a good success > in other Blends. > The reason to not to do so was that this list is used as packaging > list of DeMudi packages. > List Archive of August: 8 mails > List Archive of September: 1 SPAM mail > List Archive of October: 1 mail > In short: The mailing list is de facto free and really using it > might be a way to actively be notified about packages which are not > yet moved under pkg-multimedia-maintainers maintenance. +1 to the 'merge' action. > 2. The name > I'm in strong favour of DeMuDi because it is catchy and might be > known. +1 > 3. The tasks > We had also a discussion about reasonable tasks[6]. I hereby want to > stress that my proposed task definitions[7] which are rendered here[8] > for a better overview are simply a suggestion of an uneducated multimedia > outsider. They are probably not very practical - but it is a task for > a multimedia expert and it should be *done* (not only discussed). If > you ask me, it should be done *before* Squeeze release. Even if we > will probably not able to release metapackages (we did not even decided > whether we want them at all - see below) - we can mention DeMuDi in the > release notes of Squeeze anyway. If not - we are simlpy missing a chance > to get attention of a wide public. I already had a look and will try to adjusting them, there is something I'd like to change. > 4. Metapackages > I'm in favour of creating metapackages because they have certain > advantages > and they at least do not harm. I agree, +1 to this too. > 5. Debtags > The DebTags technique should be used more heavily in Blends (see for > instance > [9]). I do not mind what comes first: Designing Debtags for multimedia > packages and proper debtagging for *all* relevant packages or defining > tasks, putting the packages in and use the tasks pages for enabling proper > DebTagging. IMHO the latter approach is more simple and can be easier > done. Once the DebTagging is done properly we might be able to decide > about means how to create tasks from DebTags. In any case we have to *do* > something - nothing comes from sit and wait. I agree, again, and I think the second approach should be fine. -- Alessio Treglia <[email protected]> Debian & Ubuntu Developer | Homepage: http://www.alessiotreglia.com 0FEC 59A5 E18E E04F 6D40 593B 45D4 8C7C DCFC 3FD0 _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
