Multimedia Teams in Debian

[Felipe Sateler]

On Wednesday 23 April 2008 03:59:55 Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Felipe Sateler <fsateler at gmail.com> writes:

> > I tried to maintain the csound package within the debian-multimedia team,
> > but it seemed pretty much dead, which is why I moved out.
> > OTOH, if what you say is right, maybe I tried in the wrong place.
>
> I had the impression that the 'other' debian-multimedia team was rather
> focus on 'professional' audio and video editing tools rather than
> 'classic' multimedia packages like media players and multimedia
> libraries.
>
> If the debian-multimedia team is indeed dead, we should avoid setting it
> in the maintainer field of any package. Nobody is served with
> unreachable (or non-existant) maintainers.

Note that the (some?) maintainers are still active AFAICS, it's just that the 
list itself isn't useful. I haven't seen much collaboration.

-- 
Felipe Sateler
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