Quoting Bálint Réczey (2013-12-23 12:21:28) > 2013/12/23 Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>: >> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 08:39:17PM +0100, Balint Reczey wrote: >>> Thank you for the invitation. I don't know the full story behind >>> XBMC and the Multimedia Team, thus I would like to start >>> maintaining it outside of the team, then when both upstream and the >>> team is satisfied with XBMC's state in Debian I would happily join. >> >> You are free to do your voluntary work the way you like it but as >> some kind advise I would like to tell you that doing things in teams >> is often fruitful and you are somehow refusing the help of others if >> you follow this strategy. > I would have happily accepted the offer immediately and would have > joined the team if upstream had not been very skeptical about > maintaining XBMC in Debian at all [1]. > I made promises regarding the way of maintaining the package and I > think it would look bad if right when starting th maintenance I put it > under the umbrella of Multimedia Team and bring a team of additional > maintainers aboard. > I have just subscribed to the Multimedia mailing lists and I'll post > my introduction > to join the team. I just would like to join with XBMC later, after I > discussed it with > upstream in advance and they (and Multimedia Team, too) are happy > about it. > > Cheers, > Balint > > [2] http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=177474&page=1 Your approach and dialogue upstream looks quite good to me! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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