Re: XBMC packaging (was: Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?)
Hi Andreas,
2013/12/23 Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>:
> Hi Balint,
>
> 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
>
>> I have created a git repository [1] under collab-maint for now. It still
>> does not conform fully to Multimedia policy, but I tried to start the
>> convergence. :-)
>
> OK
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
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