Hey all, On October 14, 2017 4:10:15 AM GMT+02:00, Rashif Ray Rahman <schiv@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 14 October 2017 at 06:51, Rashif Ray Rahman <schiv@archlinux.org> wrote:
Thanks for your support and interest. As I already have more than one proposal we can consider it taken care of, for packages in community. I will see how we can set up a dedicated mailing list since that's what folks seem to prefer here.
But I need another volunteer to administer and maintain an ML and anything else that you guys would like (forums, website, build machine, etc). I believe then the constant user feedback loop will help all of us keep packages and other stuff up-to-date and tested.
I will continue to maintain packages for extra and a few in community with a co-maintainer to help me (because I use them personally when I am booted into my Linux system). That co-maintainer can then also request another developer to apply changes in extra for any package that I am late in updating.
Please let me know if this sounds like a plan. Yes. But also: are you thinking of a separate forum? Could this not be better dealt with within bbs?
To add on...
Presently we have TU interest from (in order of date of contact with me):
- David Runge (approached me personally, contacted me in the past with contributions) - Leonidas Spyropoulos (approached me personally, but not a pro-audio user) - Sebastian Lau (pro-audio user, similar AUR activity as David) - Mark Raynsford (packaging experience unknown) - Marcelo "Marc" Ranolfi (no existing AUR packages)
And I also know these folks as active pro-audio users for some time now:
- Ralf Mardorf (always saw the name in linux-audio ML, active pro-audio user and thinker) - Rob Til Freedmen (contacted me as far back as 2012, active pro-audio user and contributor)
There is another co-conspirator who used to lurk with me on #archaudio and still maintains aur/linux-rt which I gave up a long time ago:
- Joakim Hernberg Very important one! :-)
I am therefore making a decision based on who approached me directly with interest to become a TU, with a record of contributions. Based on that, I conclude that David will be better placed to apply for this, but I do not have the time to check packaging-fu. I'd be happy to do it. Give me until Tuesday, as I'm currently still on vacation with spotty internet access. Can't properly test my out-of-dates until then ;-)
To David, Sebastian, Rob and anyone else curious: I would like to know your opinion on Hydrogen. It made a release some time ago but its lrdf support with raptor2 was broken. [1]
I could (i) backport all changes as a non-trivial patch (because it doesn't apply cleanly), (ii) move to a -git package making us track an unstable build, or (iii) keep it out-of-date until upstream makes a release. Let me know what you would do. Hmm, looking at the changes [1], I'd say (i), but that's me writing from a phone (and acknowledging that it's probably not the Arch way ;-) ). It shouldn't be too hard for them to go for a new release, but judging from their cycle I'd assume that's not any time soon (so better not go for iii). ii might lead to a new 'epoch' and other undesired side effects (instability, higher maintenance).
Best, David [1] https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/pull/508/files -- https://sleepmap.de