Hey folks, As you know, I've been maintaining a sort of backports repo in my PPA. It started out as a very personal thing. Hardy needed a few updates in order to work well for me, so I thought the PPA could cover the compilation part instead of my own machine. As a bonus, those updates could be used by anyone who dared to take the risk. Mainly it was ffado and jack I needed, but then I started backporting some core applications as well, like ardour. After a while, I started backporting plugins and rebuild applications against them, and so on and so forth. I've had my doubts about the PPA, as I really think things would be better ending up in the official channels, but the fact is that this review-less backporting can happen much faster (for better or worse), and requires very little effort from me. For example, I simply backported scons from Jaunty in order to avoid the scons problems we had wrt building ardour. Since scons only is a build dependency, I could later remove scons from the PPA. This is of course not ideal, but it's easily done. The people who have contacted me generally are happy with the updated packages, and I've made sure to point out every time that the backports are neither supported by Ubuntu nor the Studio team, nor anyone else for that matter. And that they might face a variety of weird problems.
I'd like to start up a new PPA that only includes backports for the latest LTS release of Studio, a sort of rolling-release overlay on the LTS. I don't want people to think it's an official -studio thing, but I think it could benefit both users (and possibly also -studio) if those who want up-to-date packages on a solid LTS base would have this choice. So, the questions are: can I go ahead and start this PPA? Would this cause any issues because of the fact that I'm part of the team? I'm happy to do this on my own, without and -studio support, but maybe there would be a point in announcing it as a non-supported semi-official -studio thing? Any thoughts on this? Assuming I'll do it as personal thing, I'll of course continue to put most of my effort in official backporting and packaging anyway. This will remain a low-priority thing. I won't start a PPA like this if the team believes it to either take focus off Studio, or somehow harm our other efforts. Really, I'd just like to use my own PPA for other stuff and have an LTS-studio-overlay PPA for this stuff. Thoughts? Regards, Khashayar -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
