On 14 October 2017 at 06:51, Rashif Ray Rahman <schiv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks for your support and interest. As I already have more than one > proposal we can consider it taken care of, for packages in community. > I will see how we can set up a dedicated mailing list since that's > what folks seem to prefer here. > > But I need another volunteer to administer and maintain an ML and > anything else that you guys would like (forums, website, build > machine, etc). I believe then the constant user feedback loop will > help all of us keep packages and other stuff up-to-date and tested. > > I will continue to maintain packages for extra and a few in community > with a co-maintainer to help me (because I use them personally when I > am booted into my Linux system). That co-maintainer can then also > request another developer to apply changes in extra for any package > that I am late in updating. > > Please let me know if this sounds like a plan. To add on... Presently we have TU interest from (in order of date of contact with me): - David Runge (approached me personally, contacted me in the past with contributions) - Leonidas Spyropoulos (approached me personally, but not a pro-audio user) - Sebastian Lau (pro-audio user, similar AUR activity as David) - Mark Raynsford (packaging experience unknown) - Marcelo "Marc" Ranolfi (no existing AUR packages) And I also know these folks as active pro-audio users for some time now: - Ralf Mardorf (always saw the name in linux-audio ML, active pro-audio user and thinker) - Rob Til Freedmen (contacted me as far back as 2012, active pro-audio user and contributor) There is another co-conspirator who used to lurk with me on #archaudio and still maintains aur/linux-rt which I gave up a long time ago: - Joakim Hernberg I know these folks are very eager and helpful testers who provide feedback and try to contribute: - Insight Thekrab I am sorry if I missed anyone or any specifics. However, I cannot obviously sponsor everyone for TU candidacy or even know if some of them will be interested. I will stick to _one_ sponsorship for the purpose of helping with the pro-audio niche. I am therefore making a decision based on who approached me directly with interest to become a TU, with a record of contributions. Based on that, I conclude that David will be better placed to apply for this, but I do not have the time to check packaging-fu. Anyone is free to contact another dev or TU to apply for general package maintenance or to fill other areas. And, there is still need for administrative volunteers in case I can procure an ML (if unofficial), but that is based on what else you folks will like to have. To David, Sebastian, Rob and anyone else curious: I would like to know your opinion on Hydrogen. It made a release some time ago but its lrdf support with raptor2 was broken. [1] I could (i) backport all changes as a non-trivial patch (because it doesn't apply cleanly), (ii) move to a -git package making us track an unstable build, or (iii) keep it out-of-date until upstream makes a release. Let me know what you would do. [1] https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/issues/496 -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
