request for membership, ITA

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 21:33 +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> Hi Hans
> 
> Thanks for your support so far.
> 
> On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 11:52 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> > A couple minor details on your ITP bug report:
> > 
> > - in the description, I've been using "Pd" then using "Pure Data" in  
> > the long description so both are findable via search. Since its  
> > written text, I think we can use the more common written forms of "Pd"  
> > and "Pure Data" rather than the package name of "puredata"
> 
> Yeah, makes sense. 
> 
> > - also, I've been using the word "objects" instead of "externals"  
> > since I think its clearer to more people, especially Pd newbies.
> 
> I'm not so sure about that. Personally, I find "objects" confusing for
> describing shared library files, since it seems to be more often used to
> describe instantiations of object classes, at least on Pd mailing list
> and on #dataflow. I still think that "external" fits very well for
> external libraries (which is what they are). Also with naming I am more
> concerned about consistency than with newbie friendliness (hoping that
> the former will be the base of the latter).
> 
> OTOH, pd-zexy which is included for a long while now also talks about
> "objects". So I happily adopt your suggestion, since it somehow seems
> already established. (OTOH, pd-motex talks about "externals" again)
> 
> hm......
> 
> Roman

I guess its good to mention both "objects" and "externals" since they
are somewhat interchangeable and both valid in this context.  Pd naming
conventions aren't very standard ;)

.hc

> 
> > On Aug 25, 2010, at 7:30 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > Following IOhannes m zmoelnig and Hans-Christoph Steiner (both
> > > subscribed to this list and both now members of the pkg-mutlimedia  
> > > team)
> > > I would like to join the forces to bring some Pure Data related  
> > > packages
> > > into Debian and to help with the maintenance of those. I hope to do  
> > > this
> > > in favour of both the Debian community and the Pd community.
> > >
> > > I've been involved in the Pd community for a few years and use the
> > > software and its externals on a regular basis. I don't have written
> > > externals myself, since I am no C developer, but I contributed code in
> > > form of so called abstractions (modules written in the Pd language).
> > >
> > > I closely followed the process of finalizing the pd-motex package to
> > > make it Debian ready and now that it was finally uploaded, I'd like to
> > > try it myself with the package pd-wiimote.
> > >
> > > I posted a ITA bug report: Bug#593411
> > > I am currently hosting it at:
> > > http://github.com/reduzent/pd-wiimote
> > >
> > > Many thanks for addressing this request in advance.
> > >
> > > Roman
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > 
> > 
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