Debian Multimedia Team and Ubuntu

[Grammostola Rosea]

Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Grammostola Rosea <rosea.grammostola at gmail.com> writes:
>
>   
>>> Yes, Good idea! That's what I've intended when I've created the
>>> MOTUMedia team. 
>>>       
>> How is the MOTUMedia team related to Ubuntu Studio?
>>     
>
> I'd say both teams share similar goals, with MOTUMedia being more or
> less inactive. Slomo cares a lot for the gstreamer packages in both
> ubuntu and debian these days, and I took over with xine, vlc, ffmpeg and
> now mplayer. You could probably compare it to pkg-multimedia (before the
> team merge). Crimsun is working hard on alsa in ubuntu, AFAIUI.
>
> I'm not sure how Ubuntu Studio is doing these days, but they seem to be
> more focused in building a compilation of software for semi-professional
> audio packages, including an full-fledged distribution with installer
> and such. From the set of package, I'd compare it more to the former
> demudi team.
>
> Now with demudi being merged with pkg-multimedia, and most (well, 2/3)
> of the MOTUMedia folks being active in pkg-multimedia as well, I'd say
> let's all work in a united team: pkg-multimedia! we have more than
> enough packages to care for! :-)
>   
Why don't you merge MOTUMedia with ubuntu studio when it comes to 
package building? Wouldn't such a working together improve the state of 
Ubuntu and Debian for multimedia?

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