Aaron Griffin wrote:

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Allan McRae wrote:

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Hi all,

Do we have a dev here that wants to spend some time with the audio packages? They have not received much love lately...

The jackbeat update requires moving portaudio from [community]. We also have ardour that is quite out-of-date but requires adding several deps to the repos. I updated jack-audio-connection-kit, but it also needs a rework of is rc.d script to actually make it useful and I have not had time to address yet (if anybody wants to do this contact me for the details).

So, what do we do? Is there a dev who has time and interest to take these over? Otherwise do we bring someone onboard to maintain these packages or encourage someone in the arch-audio group to become a TU and move them to community?

Maybe we should pull on a dev specifically interested in audio on linux for things like this. Me, I'm happy as long as I can hear it.

Well, it appears we have no takers for the audio related packages so maybe bring someone on to do this is a good idea. Allan

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Allan McRae wrote:

Aaron Griffin wrote:

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On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Allan McRae wrote:

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Hi all,

Do we have a dev here that wants to spend some time with the audio packages?  They have not received much love lately...

The jackbeat update requires moving portaudio from [community].  We also have ardour that is quite out-of-date but requires adding several deps to the repos.  I updated jack-audio-connection-kit, but it also needs a rework of is rc.d script to actually make it useful and I have not had time to address yet (if anybody wants to do this contact me for the details).

So, what do we do?  Is there a dev who has time and interest to take these over?  Otherwise do we bring someone onboard to maintain these packages or encourage someone in the arch-audio group to become a TU and move them to community?

Maybe we should pull on a dev specifically interested in audio on linux for things like this. Me, I'm happy as long as I can hear it.

Well, it appears we have no takers for the audio related packages so maybe bring someone on to do this is a good idea.

Anyone care to right up a draft for a news item? Or do we have anyone in mind?

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Dusty Phillips wrote:

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Maybe we should pull on a dev specifically interested in audio on linux for things like this. Me, I'm happy as long as I can hear it.

Well, it appears we have no takers for the audio related packages so maybe bring someone on to do this is a good idea.

Anyone care to right up a draft for a news item? Or do we have anyone in mind?

Are we sure we want to bring someone on for this? Traditionally, audio development is a separate community project (ubuntustudio, for example) due to the need for a custom kernel. It seems to me its a bit outside the scope of our development focus.

Well I think Allan is talking more about the audio related utilities in extra already that are part of gnome/KDE and the like.

Eric Bélanger wrote:

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote:

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On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Dusty Phillips wrote:

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Maybe we should pull on a dev specifically interested in audio on linux for things like this. Me, I'm happy as long as I can hear it.

Well, it appears we have no takers for the audio related packages so maybe bring someone on to do this is a good idea.

Anyone care to right up a draft for a news item? Or do we have anyone in mind?

Are we sure we want to bring someone on for this? Traditionally, audio development is a separate community project (ubuntustudio, for example) due to the need for a custom kernel. It seems to me its a bit outside the scope of our development focus.

Well I think Allan is talking more about the audio related utilities in extra already that are part of gnome/KDE and the like.

I forwarded the initial post on the AUR ML in case a TU is interested.

I believe Allan is talking about the audio apps NOT part of KDE or Gnome as those are already maintained by the kde/gnome devs. Unless I'm mistaken, we're talking about standalone audio apps: ardour, rosegarden, fluidsynth, jackbeat, etc. Most of these are orphaned.

Exactly what I was talking about. Allan