[Mageia-dev] mageia sound tasks

Sat Dec 18 15:05:11 CET 2010

On 18 December 2010 15:50, Tux99 <tux99-mga at uridium.org> wrote:
+> On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Sascha Schneider wrote:
+>
+>> Hi list,
+>>
+>> I just started to create some task.spec files from the mandriva
+>> task-sound-studio for mageia.
+>> In contrast to the former taskfile and to most other linux audio
+>> distributions I would like to establish a modular system of sound-tasks,
+>> that help installing packages, but do not install everything regarded to
+>> sound.
+>> For I am not a good programmer, I wanted to ask if there are some devs,
+>> packagers and mageia-fanatics, that are willing to join me on this mission.
+>
+> Count me in, I was planning something similar too, since my interest is
+> also mainly in the Audio/Video area, that's also why I registered as a
+> packager in this area.
+>
+> I guess once the build system is up and running and we are all set up as
+> packagers then we can talk about the details, but I don't think it
+> should be here on the general dev ML, the ML would quickly get
+> polluted with too many parallel discussions if every sub-group did all
+> their discussion on the same ML. We could use a dedicated ML (either
+> an official one or else I can set one up quickly on my server) or even
+> a simple forum thread on the future Mageia forum.
+>
+
+The Mageia-dev ML is the current official packagers ML, such packaging
+discussions are supposed and expected to happen here.
+
+> Don't get demotivated by the nay-sayers that commented on your initial
+> post, the argument that there are too many tasks is silly, as long as
+> there is a maintainer for a task package (or any package) it should be
+> included in the repos (if that won't be the case then Mageia wouldn't be
+> the kind of open community distro it set out to be).
+>
+>
+
+This looks like coercing other packagers into adapting your point of
+view "if you don't agree with my POV then you're not an open community
+distro"; I don't like that attitude one bit.
+
+In any distro there're rules and guidelines that should be followed
+(look at Debian for example); being a community distro doesn't mean
+anyone gets a free reign to do whatever he wants whenever he wants.
+
+Note that Michael is discussing the issue, he didn't make final
+decisions. If you have a productive argument to make please do so,
+otherwise please refrain from calling other peoples' posts "silly" (or
+"non-sense" judging from your other posts on the ML).
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+