[adi at drcomp.erfurt.thur.de: RFP: tschack -- Another implementation for the JACK api written in C. Supports SMP]

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 09:18:58AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 07:06:47PM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 02:23:10PM +0200, Adrian Knoth wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>> As requested by Jonas, here's the RFP.
>> Is there any reason not to begin trying out approaches to supporting  
>> switching jack implementations with packages in experimental?
>> I could probably be of more use with something to test than I am by  
>> trying to participate in the discussion of what to do when.
> When new packages enter Debian, they get a thorough check by ftpmasters,  
> which takes time and consumes resources from the ftpmasters team.  So we  
> need to be certain of the naming before starting out, to not waste  
> resources unnecessarily.

I was aware of the work required for new packages, but somehow failed to
connect it with experimental. Thanks for clarifying.

> I do intend to use experimental if necessary to not disrupt theflow of  
> more important packages (read: default JACK implementation) from  
> unstable to testing.

Until the naming issues are settled and packages hit experimental, a git
branch could be started couldn't it?

-edrz