Re: [gentoo-dev] Graphics Project disbanded [pkgs up for grabs]

2020-06-09 Thread Andreas K . Hüttel
Am Montag, 8. Juni 2020, 19:02:51 EEST schrieb Michał Górny:
> Maybe it'd make sense to create a new project that is focused
> on maintaining core libraries for gfx/audio/video formats (technical
> name: codec project)?  Right now, sound and video teams are also
> suffering from similar problems.  On one hand, it makes little sense to
> create huge projects that maintain every single kind of gfx/sound/video-
> related tool ever made, on the other it doesn't exactly make sense to
> require every single core library to have an individual maintainer.

Count me in. 

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Codec_project

Here's the page. I consider this started once 3 other people have joined...

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Graphics Project disbanded [pkgs up for grabs]

2020-06-09 Thread Lars Wendler
On Sun, 07 Jun 2020 02:05:56 +0300 Andreas K. Hüttel wrote:

>OK so if you really want to go through with this then I'll take these.
>
>> media-gfx/album
>> media-gfx/enblend
>> media-gfx/exiv2
>> media-gfx/gphoto2
>> media-gfx/hugin
>> media-gfx/imagemagick
>> media-gfx/jpeg2ps
>> media-gfx/jhead
>> media-gfx/luminance-hdr
>> media-gfx/pngquant
>> media-libs/lensfun
>> media-libs/libgphoto2
>
>That said, I think the basic action is in this case pretty
>unproductive. We now have a large number of central libraries
>maintainer-needed (libpng, jpeg, tiff, ...) which would really merit a
>team...
>
>

Just for the record, media-libs/libpng belongs to base-system team for
years. I do not even remember it ever belonged to graphics team.
So it's obviously not up for grabs :)

Cheers
Lars

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