On 24/05/2005, at 10:44 AM, Rhys Hawkins wrote: > Agreed! Parts of VIC/RAT are worth reusing (eg libcommon) but I think > its time to get rid of the TCL/TK reliance. I think there is enough > people working in the area of video tools for the AccessGrid to start > a community development aimed a replacing VIC in the AG. > > The Argonne group have talked about it, but have their hands full > on the toolkit. And there are several groups/people who are doing > video "stuff" in the AG, eg JongWon Kim et al (DV and HDTV), Barz > (MPEG4 and H.264), Hiroyuki Komatsu (AGPager), Colin Perkins (HDTV), > us (VP). > > Who out there would be willing to contribute to a community driven > development for a new AG video tool? If there is enough interest then > the new AG Community Portal by Darran might be an appropriate venue > to start from.
A budding project is exactly what the portal should facilitate. I can easily imagine having a subversion repository, mailman mailing lists, bug tracker, buildbot support across multiple platforms, etc. Cheers, Darran.

