Re: Multimedia Teams in Debian
Hi Fabian,
If there' still documentation referring to these obsolete sites, please
point the doc authors to this fact (e.g. by filing bug reports).
I do that whenever I see it, but there's a lot of old information out there.
For
64studio, I have to admit I don't know the differences between their
distribution and plain Debian, but it should be possible to merge their
work into the official Debian archive
We already contribute our fixes wherever possible, because our lead
developer Free Ekanayaka is a DD. 64 Studio is not a fork, it's built
mostly from Debian sources.
http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ is a popular site but doesn't have
much information for new users. (Maybe we can help with that).
I consider this kind of problematic since debian-multimedia isn't a
community project but some kind of a 'one man show' offering highly
unofficial (strictly speaking, some even undistributable) packages for
Debian.
Actually, I think it's a two-man show, Christian and Thibaut :-) Of
course this site is unlikely to become official, but maybe we could ask
for some links to the Debian wiki, e.g.
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia
in the absence of having a better official homepage for Debian
multimedia. There could also be some introductory information for new
users there, if the site owners are willing to post it.
I believe we could start merging the efforts of both the
pkg-multimedia-maintainers and the debian-multimedia groups into one
bigger project, although the current scopes of both projects are
slightly different.
I totally agree, there's a lot of overlap. Also, the
http://puredyne.goto10.org project is switching to Debian as a base, so
they should be involved too.
Cheers!
Daniel
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