[responding only to list - find ad-hoc lists unmanageable]
Quoting Zlatan Todoric (2015-02-08 01:01:49)
> First of all sorry to CC so many of you but I don't know who is on
> debian-multimedia list.
> For the start it would be nice if you could share these informations
> regarding your packages:
> - - is upstream still alive?
> - - how active is it?
> - - do we have good relations with them? If not, why?
> - - what should be added/removed in our table?
> - - what features should we compare to keep it clean and simple? So we
> don't create too much irrelevant information to parse and this
isn't competition of package features.
> - - other ideas (rewrite intro sentences to improve and make more clear
> our idea, make the effort more public via news feeds, starting
drafts on our intro mail to upstream developers).
>
> I know this is a huge deal, but there is no gain if we don't try
That's a lot of subjective information, which then afterwards needs
analysis and judgement by someone.
I believe the purpose is to help encourage upstreams of specific kinds
of closely related tools to coordinate their efforts better and
potentially merge their projects. Or alternatively to identify which
upstream projects we in Debian can sensibly treat as superfluous.
I disagree such big collective effort is relevant for this purpose.
I appreciate that you look into the matter, Zlatan. As mentioned
already on IRC, I recommend that you try approach it in ways where your
effort can stand alone - i.e. where help from others is not crucial.
As already suggested on IRC, I recommend you to identify and track
comparative facts (but easy to locate ones, not ones that require huge
collective data mininn or interviewing and debating efforts).
- Jonas
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