1 Apr
2009
1 Apr
'09
2:21 p.m.
Grammostola Rosea wrote:
Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
So far so good. Ardour hits testing finally, a RT kernel wishlist bug
with patch is filed, people are working on LV2 etc.
Here you can find more information about maintaining multimedia
packages for Debian/ Ubuntu and joining the Debian Multimedia Team
and/ or the Ubuntu MOTUMedia team.
http://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=817
I suggest add a 'chapter' in the wiki of linuxaudio.org with
information about maintaining packages. The information about
Debian/Ubuntu you can find in my link. But I can imagine that also
other distro's like to write down some information about maintaining
multimedia packages, cause it would be nice if we could improve GNU/
Linux audio by getting more packages into the different distro's.
Please take some action here.
There is an Ubuntu package day tomorrow:
Maybe a good start to learn to build Debian/Ubuntu packages and maintain
audio packages for Debian Multimedia Team ;)
/Hello everybody,
the Ubuntu Developer Community is proud to announce the following new
initiative to help YOU find your way into developing Ubuntu.
Thursday is from now on Packaging Training day. We'll have regular
one-hour sessions in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net where we'll
have speakers who present a packaging technique and leave enough time
for all packaging related questions you might have.
For those of you who are not familiar enough with the English language,
we'll have people in #ubuntu-classroom-{de,es,...} who will help to
translate your questions.
We will rotate session times to make sure the sessions work for all
timezones. We'll follow a 1st Thursday 6:00 UTC, 2nd Thursday 12:00 UTC,
3rd Thursday 18:00 UTC, 4th Thursday 0:00 UTC (5th Thursday 6:00 UTC)
pattern. For the first month April, we're proud to announce the
following sessions:
* 2nd April, 06:00 UTC: Daniel Holbach, Fixing an Ubuntu bug
* 9th April, 12:00 UTC: James Westby, bzr builddeb –in-15-minutes
* 16th April, 18:00 UTC: Didier Roche, How-to update a package
* 23rd April, 00:00 UTC: <Tutor>, TBA
* 30th April, 06:00 UTC: Daniel Holbach, Getting Started with Ubuntu
Development
If you want to give a session, request a session, help out as a
translator, share your comments, help with the organisation or anything
else, please head over to
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Packaging/Training
and let us know.
These sessions are going to be what we make of them, so let's make the
most out of them! Rock on everybody and see you on Thursday! :-)/
Hey Ico,
I'm sorry, but I don't really understand what you mean. While I would
encourage the people from the Debian Multimedia Team to subscribe to a
list
like linux-audio-tuning to discuss tuning issues and grab ideas from
here,
I don't see how we could provide mirroring or any kind of services like
this (we have limited resources), and even if we could, I don't see why
*we* should do it.
If I understood the original mail correctly, this initiative is
meant to
be
integrated to *Debian*, and is meant to make the *Debian* distro
better,
because it is *Debian* which has issues with linux-audio. Why should
linux-audio chime in ?
Because this is an opportunity to extend distro transparency and
ultimately
allow developers to spend more time on developing rather than dealing
with
differences between distros.
Besides, we already mirror UbuntuStudio, JACKlab, and 64Studio, so why
shouldn't we also encourage Debian Multimedia to join the consortium
and in
turn allow them to use whatever resources we may have.
All that being said, I do agree with you that we have limited
resources, and
in part I am hoping that through these kinds of initiatives we could
bring
in more contributors to the core Linuxaudio.org services.