Seeking for sponsorship for linuxptp (PTP/IEEE1588 implementation)

[Felipe Sateler]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Adrian Knoth <adi at drcomp.erfurt.thur.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 01:22:53PM +0100, Tino Mettler wrote:
>
>> Hi Adrian,
>
> Hi!
>
>> as you recently asked how AES67 is going, I'm seeking for a sponsor for
>> linuxptp which I started to package recently[1]. I saw that you
>> maintain several multimedia related packages. Do you have a suggestion
>> for a DD who might be interested in sponsorship for this package? If
>> not, I'm sorry to bother you with my request.
>
> I'd upload it myself, but since I'm not a DD, I cannot. It could still
> be team-maintained in pkg-multimedia.
>
> As for DDs: alessio at debian.org or umlaeute at debian.org, we have even more
> in the multimedia team.

I am happy to upload, but I cannot commit to reviewing the packaging
on my own. If other members of the team help up reviewing the package,
I am willing to sponsor.

>
> What about the original ptpd maintainer?
>
> Package: ptpd
> Version: 2.3.0-dfsg-1
> Maintainer: Roland Stigge <stigge at antcom.de>

Indeed.

>
>> I CCd the debian-multimedia list on Alioth. However, the archive seems
>> to contain only autogenerated mails and spam, so I'm not sure if someone
>> reads this list.
>
> pkg-multimedia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org is correct.
>
>
>>  PTP provides higher precision and faster synchronization than NTP even
>>  without hardware support. With hardware support, sub-microsecond
>
> For those less familiar with contemporary audio hardware: PTP is the
> foundation of low-latency audio-over-IP. Every recent AoIP protocol
> uses it, and so does AES67, a standard that people finally agreed on to
> replace the many competing AoIP protocols out there.
>

Out of curiosity, which apps should end up adding such support?
End-user apps like ardour or more plumbing layers like jack and
pulseaudio? Or maybe even ALSA?

Is there already a free implementation of this protocol somewhere?

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler