What to do for new packages

[Free Ekanayaka]

Hi Reinhard,

|--==> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:29:52 +0100, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> said:

  RT> Felipe Sateler <fsateler at gmail.com> writes:
  >>El 26/11/08 12:27 Felipe Sateler escribió:
  >>>OK, so I'm about to co-maintain liblo, which is an OSC library, and can be
  >>>considered a multimedia package (csound, rosegarden and ardour are some
  >>>"big" packages using it).
  >>>So... I want to bring it under the scope of the teams-to-become-one. I have
  >>>imported the sources into a git repository. demudi already has a git area
  >>>enabled in alioth, pkg-multimedia doesn't. Should I use the demudi area?
  >>>What list should I put in the Maintainer field?
  >>>Given that pkg-multimedia is more active maybe we should it?
  >>
  >>So what's the conclusion on this? Since pkg-multimedia doesn't have a git 
  >>repository I just pushed my changes to the demudi git area. I'm still not 
  >>clear on which mailing list to use yet. The poll didn't have much 
  >>participation, and ended up in a 3:2 win for pkg-multimedia.

  RT> Yeah, good idea. Feel free to correct me, but if nobody objects about
  RT> this very small win,

Fine for me.

  RT> I'd suggest this:

  RT>  * maintainer is set to
  RT>    pkg-multimedia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org

How should the team's name look like? The full maintainer field
currently looks like:

Debian multimedia packages maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>

which is a bit long. What about trimming it to

Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>

similarly to other projects like pkg-gnome:

Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>

?

  RT>  * discussion happens on that list as well

Ok.

  RT>  * pkg-multimedia gets an git repository (Felipe, please request one and
  RT>    start moving the packages. btw, is it possible to redirect the old
  RT>    locations to the new ones? - I don't think so, but you never know)

This probably goes without saying, but I would include the tags:

Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-multimedia/PACKAGE.git
Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-multimedia/PACKAGE.git

in all debian/control files.

  RT>  * packages formerly in svn are being migrated on a best efford basis
  RT>    without a fixed deadline.

Agreed.

  RT>  * commit messages are copied to both pkg-multimedia-commits@ and the
  RT>    PTS for the relevant package. The former results then in a very busy
  RT>    mailing list but if one is interested only in a specifc package he
  RT>    can just subscribe to the PTS.

Good idea.

  RT> These points should be seen as proposed clarification to
  RT> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/Merge

  RT> The selling argument was (I think) that debian-multimedia.org already
  RT> exists and is well known, but has no relationship to demudi, which in
  RT> fact even predates debian-multimedia.

Yeah, sad to have to say goodbye to Debian Multimedia (the Debian
one), I feel that name was quite easy and catchy. Anyway the important
thing to me is to get a well maintained package set.

Ciao!

Free