Generous offer for debimedia / Help Wanted!

[Fabian Greffrath]

Am 07.12.2010 20:48, schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
> In Message-ID:<4CFD7048.6050407 at debian.org>, Thomas Goirand made the
> very generous offer for DDs to Host a machine for any debian
> purpose. I've accepted the offer to host drive the debimedia archive:

Wow, this sounds all great, thanks to you and Thomas!

> Technically, I now have access to a xen instance with 20gig space and
> 512mb RAM. I'd like to move the current debmedia archive to this
> host. Because we now these additional ressources, I think we can even
> setup a pbuilder for building i386/amd64 packages. I imagine that with
> this, we can also extend the archive to hold backports of "important"
> multimedia packages for stable users. Well, you get the idea.

Well, I don't right now. ;)

Given that lame, xvidcore and x264 are currently sitting in the NEW 
queue and there are chances they will get accepted into Debian, I 
guess nearly *all* the other packages that are listed on our wiki page 
can be provided by Debian as well (i.e. think of feature-enhanced 
gstreamer, ffmpeg, mplayer, vlc, et al). As soon as the packages are 
in the official Debian archive, it is posible to provide backports for 
them via the official way, i.e. via backports.org.

So what are the debimedia core packages and is there still a need for 
debimedia at all if the aforementioned packages get really accepted 
into the Debian archive?

> The setup of the machine is not finished. Please contact me in private
> if you are interested in helping out with planning and/or setup of the
> machine. Perhaps we can also schedule an irc meeting for discussing
> further steps.

Of course I am interested, but we should discuss the points I raised 
before to prevent doing unnecessary work.

Cheers,
Fabian