On 18 December 2010 15:50, Tux99 <tux99-...@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