[Mageia-dev] mageia sound tasks

[Ahmad Samir]

On 18 December 2010 15:50, Tux99 <tux99-mga at 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