Meeting minutes from 1st #debian-multimedia Meeting on Thursday, 03 Dec 2009

[Reinhard Tartler]

Hey, as promised here are the meeting minutes from our meeting last
Thursday.  Unless someone seriously objects to one or the other point in
my summary, I'll publish these minutes tomorrow on our wiki.

Special thanks go to Eric for proofreading!

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1st #debian-multimedia Meeting on Thursday, 03 Dec 2009
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Meeting started by siretart` at 15:02:19 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-multimedia/2009/debian-multimedia.2009-12-03-15.02.log.html
.

Meeting summary
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* introduction round  (siretart`, 15:03:32)

  * the present team members introduced themselves

* sponsoring and spreading the load among DDs  (siretart`, 15:12:56)

  * A backlog of packages to be uploaded was pointed out by
    siretart` and confirmed by free.

  * It was pointed out that our wiki pages generally could need
    some rework. Pages like:
    http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging
    indeed have much useful information, but could generally need
    some cleanups.

  * ACTION: edrz agrees to update wiki with stuff agreed in this
    meeting.  (edrz, 15:20:26)

  * It was proposed to create checklist with recommendations on
    how to make potential sponsor their lives easier:
    http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/Sponsoring

  * ACTION: DDs will list their packaging tool preference on
    http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/Sponsoring  (edrz, 15:32:33)

* improving packaging guidelines  (siretart`, 15:26:06)

  * bdrung asked if we should recommend dpkg source format
    3.0 (quilt). The general consensus was that there was no
    immediate need for it but not all helper tools like
    git-buildpackage properly cope with it.

  * the team agreed to mandate DEP-3 headers in patches

  * ACTION: siretart` fsateler agree to update DevelopPackaging on wiki
     0K . (edrz, 15:39:13)

* Package lifecycle and scope of the team  (siretart`, 15:27:07)

  * siretart asked "under which situations do we want to consider
    orphaning or removing the package from the team and/or
    Debian". Lool proposed to test the interest in a package
    among team members in order to find out if a package
    is "acceptable" for the team.

  * siretart then suggested to use the the uploaders field of
    debian/changelog for documenting interest. The first person
    listed there should be the regular uploader, followed by
    names of team members supporting the package.  No real
    objection was raised.

  * There is no strict enforcement on this, though it was agreed
    to start a discussion on the list as needed.

  * edrz notes that a team member is a person with an Alioth
    account who has been added to pkg-multimedia-maintainers
    team (edrz, 15:45:53)

* Next meeting

  * edrz setup a new doodle poll for the next meeting. It will
    happen early to mid of January. Please vote your preference:
    http://www.doodle.com/ak6vpsx65zswnetg

  * topics postponed to next meeting: debimedia, pulseaudio, mentoring
    sessions.  (edrz, 15:55:43)

Meeting ended at 16:01:23 UTC.



Action Items
------------
* edrz agrees to update wiki with stuff agreed in this meeting.
* DDs will list their packaging tool preference on
  http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/Sponsoring
* siretart` fsateler agree to update DevelopPackaging on wiki


Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* edrz
  * edrz agrees to update wiki with stuff agreed in this meeting.
* fsateler
  * siretart` fsateler agree to update DevelopPackaging on wiki
* siretart`
  * siretart` fsateler agree to update DevelopPackaging on wiki
* **UNASSIGNED**
  * DDs will list their packaging tool preference on
    http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/Sponsoring


People Present (lines said)
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* siretart` (111)
* lool (66)
* edrz (46)
* free (45)
* bdrung (27)
* fsateler (26)
* helmut (18)
* adi (7)
* MeetBot (2)
* LucidFox (2)


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