jackd2 ready to roll

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 08:50:06PM +0200, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
>Hi,
>
>|--==> On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 15:56:24 +0200, Adrian Knoth 
>|--==> <adi at drcomp.erfurt.thur.de> said:
>
>  [...]
>
>  AK> What I've seen in the team so far: make it work. Besides this, 
>  AK> there are no to few rules.
>
>  AK> We don't have a "please beginners" policy.
>
>Totally. The only strong points we have as team are listed here
>
>http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging#Packagingguidelines
>
>and they are pretty packaging-tool-agnostic (re CDBS/DH7/whatever). We 
>have a lot of packages to care of and limited resources (it's almost 
>all volunteer work), so I think it makes sense to let whoever gets the 
>job done decide about how to do it, as long as it is compliant with the 
>Debian Policy and the few guidelines above.
>
>Btw, thanks a lot Jonas and Adrian for pushing jack2->unstable forward.

Thanks for the confirmation and encouragement, Free. I certainly 
appreciate there being room for my CDBS packaging style here at the 
Multimedia team.

I appreciate Reinhard being concerned about newcomers, too.  I have had 
a bad experience with setting the bar too high: I initiated the Debian 
packaging of Sugar packages and encouraged others to join me but 
insisted on doing it my own way.  Today - after several interested 
attempts to help out - I am still the only maintainer of those packages, 
and I partly blame the complexity of my packaging style for that.

So I seriously mean it when I wrote earlier that I appreciate you 
challenging me, Reinhard.  I could use some more challenges on the 
usability front.

Please continue to raise questions about my packaging.  Both to maybe 
learn something (you *and* me). But also to challenge the relevance of 
complexity.  Most probably I will be _very_ stubborn, but even if it 
seems you are getting nowhere with me it might be that your raising 
concerns in the long run help me shape up both my own personal packaging 
style and the features of CDBS.  Just wishing here :-)


Regards,

  - Jonas

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