What to do for new packages

[Reinhard Tartler]

Felipe Sateler <fsateler at gmail.com> writes:

> El 26/11/08 12:27 Felipe Sateler escribió:
>> OK, so I'm about to co-maintain liblo, which is an OSC library, and can be
>> considered a multimedia package (csound, rosegarden and ardour are some
>> "big" packages using it).
>> So... I want to bring it under the scope of the teams-to-become-one. I have
>> imported the sources into a git repository. demudi already has a git area
>> enabled in alioth, pkg-multimedia doesn't. Should I use the demudi area?
>> What list should I put in the Maintainer field?
>> Given that pkg-multimedia is more active maybe we should it?
>
> So what's the conclusion on this? Since pkg-multimedia doesn't have a git 
> repository I just pushed my changes to the demudi git area. I'm still not 
> clear on which mailing list to use yet. The poll didn't have much 
> participation, and ended up in a 3:2 win for pkg-multimedia.

Yeah, good idea. Feel free to correct me, but if nobody objects about
this very small win, I'd suggest this:

 * maintainer is set to
   pkg-multimedia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org

 * discussion happens on that list as well

 * pkg-multimedia gets an git repository (Felipe, please request one and
   start moving the packages. btw, is it possible to redirect the old
   locations to the new ones? - I don't think so, but you never know)

 * packages formerly in svn are being migrated on a best efford basis
   without a fixed deadline.

 * commit messages are copied to both pkg-multimedia-commits@ and the
   PTS for the relevant package. The former results then in a very busy
   mailing list but if one is interested only in a specifc package he
   can just subscribe to the PTS.

These points should be seen as proposed clarification to
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/Merge

The selling argument was (I think) that debian-multimedia.org already
exists and is well known, but has no relationship to demudi, which in
fact even predates debian-multimedia.

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4