Hi Erich, On 1/1/19 7:39 PM, Erich Eickmeyer wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I hope everyone is having a happy new year. I haven't been checking-in > lately due to a number of things going on in my life. First, it was work > getting busy, then it was a bit of depression onset by my resigning said > position (they pretty much promised me that I wouldn't ever have room > for advancement or promotion, or even being full-time).
Sorry to hear about your troubles. I hope the new year brings a better work situation for you. > > With that, I thought I'd check-in to see where everyone is with their > current projects. I, for one, have started-in on ubuntustudio-installer. > I have moved it from bzr to git, and I'm going to be working on adding a > few entries that will enable it to be used on other flavors for > installation of Ubuntu Studio-specific items, namely the swappiness and > lowlatency kernel default selection in GRUB. I already split-out the > parts of ubuntustudio-default-settings to become their own sub-packages, > so it should be relatively trivial. This should complete the goal of > allowing other flavors to install the benefits of Ubuntu Studio while > still keeping their chosen Desktop Environment. I you need a review of any of these packages before chasing a sponsor, let me know. If we can minimise the work the sponsors have to do, they are more likely to look at your packages than somebody else's! > > == Vision for a Beautiful Experience == > > As many of you know, I also forked Ubuntu MATE's GRUB theme to our own. > I contacted Simon Quigley to get it into Universe (would be my first > full package! \o/), so hopefully that will happen. He's got his hands > full with Lubuntu, so we'll see. Congrats. It would be great to have an extra hand doing this packaging stuff :-) > > My thought behind theming GRUB is this: Ubuntu Studio is intended for > artists of all kinds, and as such should provide a beautiful experience. > I will concede that the notion of beauty is subjective. For this reason, > I'm going to also look into the LightDM theme and see if there's > anything we can learn from other flavors. Right now, Ubuntu MATE > provides a nice LightDM theme, which I will explore forking into our own. > > The other thing, which I believe Thomas was working on, was changing our > Plymouth boot theme. I'll admit, Plymouth quite over my head. Thomas, > have you made any progress on this? > > == Calf & LMMS == > > Specifically, this goes out to Ross (with a little slice of Len on the > side): We obviously had to remove LMMS for its dependency on > calf-ladspa. That said, I have found out that calf-ladspa is a > subpackage of LMMS and should never have been split-out in upstream > Debian, that the calf-ladspa plugins are included with LMMS but were > never intended to 1) be split-out, and 2) be enacted as a dependency. > This seems like something that could be trivial to fix in the > debian/control file for the lmms package. I'm wondering, Ross, if you > could look into this? Here's a link to a thread for more context: > https://github.com/calf-studio-gear/calf/issues/134 I looked at this a while back. Unfortunately, lmms is not maintained in the Debian Multimedia Team, so getting it updated is not as easy. but I will give it ago. > > > Well, that's what I've got this time. Would love to hear back from everyone! > > Erich > > I have not given up on applying for some upload rights in Ubuntu (again) sometime this year, so I have been doing a few merges from Debian to keep the statistics up (they needed to see more sustained activity from me last time). Recent sponsored uploads: 1. Qjackctl 2. Blends (needed for debian-multimedia) Waiting sponsorship: 1. debian-multmedia (multimedia-puredata is used in our audio seed to pick up all the latest puredata stuff). I will ping a sponsor soon, now that the holiday season is over. If you notice any other packages out of date compared to Debian (or upstream), then let me know. Cheers, Ross
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