Ok. As expected, there are indeed reasons for the Jitsi-meet's absence. We shouldn't expect it to arrive soon.
On the other hand Jitsi has called a lot of attention lately, and it is used in DebConf and Debian Social. I'm not saying it will be easy, but I think we're in a way better position in 2020 that we were a few years ago. On top of that, the amount of dependencies might be reducing and although Kotlin isn't there yet either, it is reported to be 'almost' there. And although Jitsi might be a fast-moving target for the moment, I guess most of the underlying libraries aren't. Libraries are usually useful in broader contexts than user-applications, so we might perhaps be able to pool resources with other users interested in different use-cases for the same libraries. Do you think it would make sense to start packaging these libraries first, in order to pave the way for a future adoption of Jitsi-meet? El dom., 27 sept. 2020 a las 16:41, Damian Minkov (<damen...@jitsi.org>) escribió: > Hi all, > > Thanks for the interest in the project. There are a few concerns I have, > first is that we do not have the resources to maintain this. > > The second one is that the project sometimes follows the pace of the > browsers to do new releases. Which means a new version every 6 weeks. We > had two or three occasions in the last few years where everyone needs to > update due to a breaking change in the browsers, like a mandatory field > being added in SDP, or the old bridge not supporting the new DTLS version. > And because of the pace of how things evolve, we do not support old release > doing backports. This means that if a package goes in stable it may happen > to soon be unusable. > And sometimes backporting a change is even not possible :) Like the DTLS > change, the update was moving of using a complete re-write of the bridge > ... new dependencies and totally new project ... > > And if someone chooses the path of doing the job we are talking about > 150-200 dependent libraries, I'm not sure how many of those are already in > Debian, I would guess not much ... This was the main problem when we did > the Jitsi Desktop submission to the Debian repos, It took us, one > person, fulltime for almost six months. > Nowadays the video bridge had been rewritten and has fewer dependencies. > I'm also not sure about the state of Kotlin, is it yet in the repos, cause > it is one of the dependencies? > > Regards > damencho > > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 8:11 AM Ko Ko Ye` <kokoye2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> May I help you ? >> >> Mentoring or RFP / RFS >> >> with regards >> >> On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 6:57 PM Sudip Mukherjee < >> sudipm.mukher...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 11:49 AM Mathias Behrle <m...@mailbox.org> wrote: >>> > >>> > * Fioddor Superconcentrado: " Jitsi meet packaging" (Sun, 27 Sep 2020 >>> 12:10:17 >>> > +0200): >>> > >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > > As user I'm interested in having Jitsi Meet available in FreedomBox. >>> Since >>> > > it is a pure Debian blend we need an official Debian package. So I'm >>> > > considering to step forward and take over it. >>> > > >>> > > But >>> > > 1) I've never ever packaged any Debian package. >>> > > 2) According to this bug, previous attempts have failed, so I guess >>> there >>> > > are reasons for that. >>> > > >>> > > So, any guidance would be welcome. >>> > > >>> > > I've seen that upstream already provides a .deb file. I guess it >>> needs >>> > > further debianisation to be accepted in the archive. >>> > >>> > At least the original owner of #760485 seems to be the same person >>> that is >>> > currently active and in Uploaders at >>> > https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/blob/master/debian/control >>> > >>> > Best will be to ask him directly why he didn't push to get the >>> packages into >>> > Debian main. I have added him on CC. >>> >>> I had the same interest and mailed Damencho around March and he >>> mentioned about lack of resources to maintain jitsi in Debian as its a >>> lot of work. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Regards >>> Sudip >>> >>> >> >> -- >> >> with regards *Ko Ko Ye`* >> >> +95 97989 22022 >> +95 94500 22022 >> +95 9731 47907 >> kokoye2...@gmail.com >> kokoye2...@ubuntu.com >> >> skype: kokoye2007 >> jitsi: kokoye2007 >> >> http://ubuntu-mm.net >> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/kokoye2007 >> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MyanmarTeam http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-mm >> >
