Re: XBMC packaging (was: Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?)
2013/12/23 Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>:
> 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!
Thank you!
I have uploaded 2:12.2+dfsg1-1 and wrote a blog article [3] to explain
the changes.
So far the package looks OK, but there is a lot of room for improvements.
Patches (and other forms of help) are always welcome! :-)
Cheers,
Balint
[3] http://balintreczey.hu/blog/introducing-xbmc-from-debian/
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