Multimedia Teams in Debian

[Felipe Sateler]

El 23/04/08 06:09 Fabian Greffrath escribió:
> I believe we could start merging the efforts of both the
> pkg-multimedia-maintainers and the debian-multimedia groups into one
> bigger project, although the current scopes of both projects are
> slightly different. Since this has allready been suggested today, I'd
> like to hear some other (Hello, team members!) opinions about it.

Hello all. This discussion died without any further action towards merging 
both teams. I re-brought it up a few days ago at the debian-multimedia 
list[1], and the general consensus (ie, 2 other people) is that they should 
be merged. Now, re-reading this particular thread, it seems that the 
pkg-multimedia team didn't have anything against it. So, lets work out a way 
to move forward.

First of all, the bikeshed :) : which list and name to use. It was suggested 
that debian-multimedia be kept as a discussion list about multimedia in 
debian, and pkg-multimedia for the maintainership of packages. While it 
sounds nice at first, I think it doesn't make much sense. At least nobody has 
been using any of both lists for that purpose. I think it should be better if 
only one list would be kept. I'm not sure what kind of "general" discussion 
was expected in the d-m list. The kde in debian lists (which follow this 
dual-list model) show that the "general discussion" one ended up pretty much 
dead. I also think that Debian Multimedia Team is a cooler name.

Second, VCS coordination. From what I can see, pkg-multimedia uses svn. d-m 
also uses svn, but is slowly moving towards git. Is there any interest in the 
p-m people to move to git? I fear that there is no interest in d-m to move 
back so svn (am I right in this?). My personal choice would be git, FWIW.

Administrative merging of the teams (ie, removing demudi or pkg-multimedia 
from alioth to use only one) should be done at least right after squeeze 
(since packages in lenny will point to both places).

Lets hope this gets the ball rolling.

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-multimedia/2008/11/msg00033.html

Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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