On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:28 AM, Brendan Jones <brendan.jones.it@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well it could very well be a coding project. Think of "packaging" the > musicians guide with project files and sample templates. It could even be > interactive (ie. clicking on a link would launch said software with packaged > project file etc). > > I'm thinking this is probably a project which other distro's could use as > well. I've been talking to the UbuntuStudio maintainer and he is keen to > link to our stuff as well, so perhaps we can float a project that requires > building and installing the docs + project files + samples in locations > defined by what you pass to the makefile. That's where the coding component > would come in - packaging is considered coding. > > Here's what Len Ovens, one of the UbuntuStudio maintainers had to say about > the Musicians Guide: > > "It is far more detailed than any of our documentation. A great job. It > certainly makes me realize how far I have to go in documenting things." > > Seems like a shame to duplicate effort. I certainly have used the Arch Wiki > many times to obtain the perfect audio setup. Be great to have documentation > which is dynamic, interactive and that caters for different distro > peculiarities. Yes ... once upon a time there was an audio project called AGNULA (A GNU Linux for Audio or something of that ilk). It started before Ubuntu forked Debian and came in two flavors - Debian (.deb) and Red Hat (.rpm). I'd love to see some kind of distro-agnostic audio tool set, along the lines of what I'm attempting to do for computational journalism. That said, I've had to drop openSUSE and Mageia from my target distros and focus on Fedora, Linux Mint and Ubuntu. The gotcha here is that students might find packaging boring, unless the task somehow involves building tools for dealing with the cross-distro issues. Along those lines, it's been a while since I looked at the openSUSE "Open Build Service" tool set - maybe that wheel's already been invented. -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/znmeb; Computational Journalism on a Stick http://j.mp/CompJournoStick/ The National Coal Institute reminds you, "There's no fuel like an old fuel." _______________________________________________ music mailing list music@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music
