[Musix-users] Please contribute to the Debian Multimedia Team!

Mon Mar 9 17:29:24 CET 2009

El Lunes, 9 de Marzo de 2009 07:44, Grammostola Rosea escribió:
> marcos wrote:
> > El Domingo, 8 de Marzo de 2009 16:58, Grammostola Rosea escribió:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I noticed that you have some packages in your repo, which are not in
> >> Debian itself.
> >
> > Sure
> >
> >> My first question is: where can I find the *.dsc files of the packages?
> >
> > Into the bz2 or gz packages
> >
> > ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/deb/sources/
> >
> >> The next thing why I mail you is because it would be great and better if
> >> those packages are also in Debian. Why don't you upload the packages to
> >> Debian and join the Debian Multimedia Team for package building?
> >
> > Well, sometimes we just make a backport and Debian will not accept it,
> > but I am mailing the collaborators mailing list
> >
> > musix-colaborad at lists.ourproject.org so anyone could get in touch with
> > you
> >
> > Grammostola Rosea <rosea.grammostola at gmail.com>
> >
> > I also was at Debcon8 Mar del Plata, Argentina (I live at Buenos Aires,
> > 400 kmts from there), and I was filming and talking with Debian activists
> > and mainteirners. Someone from El Salvador or Ecuador (I dont remember)
> > asked me those questions you are making now
> >
> > He stayed at the #musix channel on freenode.net for a while, and he
> > wanted to see our comunity, etc., and he used to think that Musix was
> > only a few more packages added to a custom debian
> >
> > That's allways the error from "debian people": you have to know what is
> > the people's need to make some art, for instance, music.
>
> Yeah, I'm more a musician then a Debian man too ;)
> And there are a lot of packages which are not in Debian yet.
> - LV2
> - rakarrack
> - guitarix
> - Ingen
> - whysynth
> - frescobaldi
> - etc.
>

Cool, I mean, a cool list

> This is a pitty...
> Also Musix could benefit a lot if more multimedia packages are in Debian
> imho...
>

Sure, also we have realtime patched low latency kernels _without_ the Linux 
blobs!

> > I will like to collaborate with Debian, we use Debian (Musix 2.0a is now
> > debian live based, ... musix 1.0 was based on knoppix)
> >
> >> The Debian Multimedia Team needs more people who take care of one
> >> package (which you uses a lot) and maintain it. Another big argument is:
> >>
> >> It will improve:
> >>
> >> 1) the quality of the packages
> >> 2) Musix as a multimedia distro
> >> 3) Debian (and derivatives)  for multimedia usage
> >> 4) the  state of  Linux audio (multimedia) in general
> >>
> >> So there are both quality and social arguments for it!
> >
> > Sure. I can not maintain a package now, but maybe some Musix's friends
> > could help! Pablo Sastre, Ariel Errera, Daniel Vidal, etc.
>
> Would be great. Just pick one (or two) packages which you uses a lot and
> which are not in Debian yet and become just a package maintainer. :)
>

Well, it depends on them now

> See the weblinks how to join, or mail to
> pkg-multimedia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
> after subscribing to it.
>

Thanks

> >> *Why the Debian Multimedia Team? *
> >>
> >> 1) Because they want to improve Debian for music production!
> >> 2) Debian has an flexible, fast and easy package management
> >> 3) A lot of people use Debian (based) distro's, Debian itself, Ubuntu
> >> (Studio), 64studio, Sidux, Mepis etc.
> >> 4) You will learn to build quality packages
> >
> > Good point
> >
> >> 5) You don't have to become a Debian developer (DD), you can just become
> >> and stay a package maintainer.
> >
> > Nice
> >
> >> *What can I do?*
> >>
> >> 1) Build or improve packages for the Debian Multimedia Team. It's
> >> recommended to maintain packages you use yourself often.
> >> 2) Report bugs and wishes
> >> 3) Join the Debian multimedia team mailing list:
> >> pkg-multimedia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
> >>
> >> *Where can I find more info?*
> >>
> >> Wiki:
> >> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia
> >>
> >> Packaging:
> >> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging
> >>
> >> Existing packages which needs help:
> >> http://wnpp.debian.net/
> >>
> >> Debian New Maintainers' guide:
> >> http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ (!)
> >>
> >> Bugs:
> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=maint&data=debian-mul
> >>tim edia%40lists.debian.org&archive=no&version=&dist=unstable
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> It would be great if you choose one package which you uses a lot and
> >> maintain it for the Debian Multimedia Team! It would improve the quality
> >> of Linux audio and it will help the whole community!
> >>
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >
> > Thanks
>
> Thanks for your reply. I hope you guys will join this! :)
>
> One Artist, one package ;)

Good idea. I think that some of we could do it

We are worried trying to push out Musix 2.0 beta1

Regards

-- 
Marcos Germán Guglielmetti
(No sabe usar Windows)