Re: Presentation + A debian-based for audio creation and production, stage technics and video blend (or "the future of TangoStudio")
Sorry for replying to the initial mail but I just wanted to address
some things that were said in the thread without sending a bajillion
replies (wow, didn't expect the thread to get so long!).
Conflicts are a bad idea since you force people to not use things even
if they want to. In the case of pulseaudio it sounds like they just
paper over a bug. As Adrian says, that bug (pulseaudio/jack
interaction) should be fixed instead of papering over it with
Conflicts.
I don't know how to make the phrase "Debian Pure Blend" any clearer,
perhaps we should just use "Debian" instead. Jonas's presentations on
Debian Pure Blends at FOSSASIA and other places would probably help
but I can't find any videos, some links to slides here:
http://wiki.jones.dk/DebianAsia2011
d-i and tasksel don't need packages to be on-disk, they can be pulled
in from the Internet.
DebianEdu is not yet a "Debian Pure Blend", they are still a
derivative for now. They have a separate website, separate
donations/funding stream, separate release schedule, separate ISO
images, some modified packages and maybe more.
Having used GNOME 3 on a laptop with a touchscreen for a while now, I
would say it isn't touchscreen-oriented and currently has some major
issues preventing use on touchscreen-only devices.
All of Debian's ISO images are here and none of them are for
specialised blends, just for generic desktops:
http://www.debian.org/CD/
There is no guarantee that good (multimedia) software will remain in
Debian and QA folks remove truckloads of software every year. The only
thing that ensures that software remains in Debian is when people put
effort into keeping it there. For a specialised types of software like
media production, the set of people who want to use it does not
intersect much with the set of people who have the skills to package
it, leading to things like cinepaint leaving Debian, people trying to
bring it back and then giving up.
The multimedia team doesn't do sponsoring but does do team maintainence:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/Sponsoring
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/Join
d-i doesn't yet allow choice of desktop and I read somewhere that
d-i/tasksel folks wanted to limit desktop choices but maybe they would
be open to a "specialised tasks" sub-menu or something that would
contain the non-default desktops plus all the blends.
For people who want to stick with specific older versions, we have
snapshot.debian.org.
--
bye,
pabs
http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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