Re: [proaudio] ANN: 1 year gentoo-proaudio-overlay

[Dominique Michel <dominique.michel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:13:00 +0100,
Frieder Bürzele <evermind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> Hi,
> 
> Today the overlay exists exactly 1 year
> My first post was on Th Jan 26, 2006 3:38 pm at the gentoo-forums.

Greetings!

> 
> First a quick thank to all users and contributors.
> Thanks for helping building this overlay to what it is today.
> 
> In the past year the overlay has grown from 30 apps to about 200.
> 
> Our mailinglist has atm 80 members.
> Don't know the number of layman users :)
> 
> So what's next?
> 
> 1. add new maintainers
>    Next step is to add additional maintainers. As maintaining
>    takes really alot time for just two ppl and won't get less if
>    the overlay is getting more and more popular.
> 
>    So if some of you (ebuild contributor or not) want to join
>    the team of ebuild (or web space?!) maintainers drop me a email.
> 

I can contribute with some maintenance. Eventually with some new ebuilds too if
they are not too complicated. 

> 
> 2. Mention the existence of the overlay at http://linux-sound.org/
>    which imply a successful step 1.
> 
> 
> 3. Maybe a installable proaudio livecd (or livedvd) based on sabayonlinux
>    which is based on gentoo :)
>    
>    So if you're interest in such a project and want to participate.
>    Get Sabyonlinux from http://sabayonlinux.org install it on your
>    spare machine :) and validate it if we could use it as a base.
>    (start installing some apps from the overlay and also rt-kernel,...)
>    Post your opinions about it.
> 

It's a good news. I will take a look at Sabayon.

Ciao,
Dominique