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

[Frieder Bürzele <evermind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

SteelRage wrote:
> Frieder Bürzele ha scritto:
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> > Today the overlay exists exactly 1 year
> > My first post was on Th Jan 26, 2006 3:38 pm at the gentoo-forums.
> >     
>
> [SPAM]Happy birthday tooo uuuusss, happy birthday tooo uuuusss![/SPAM]
>
>   
> > 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.
> >     
>
> Just a question, to avoid accepting/proposing myself for jobs I cannot
> mantain: how much average time would it take to contribute with ebuild
> mantaining (fixing bugs, requests, looking for updates, etc)?
>   


if you've experience with building ebuilds and know it's "pitfalls" and 
the app
you'd like to create a ebuild uses a "good buildsystem" and you also 
know each
dependency you're done with a new ebuild within 5 minutes :)
But very often some of this premises are not given so it could really 
take long
> Having already some experience in programming (C++,Bash), how much time
> will I spend to start contributing decent ebuilds?
>   

you could start with just bumping ebuilds if  a new release appears.
So for that task you don't need so much time. But someone need to
do it :)

To ease this you could ask upstream maintainers to inform you if a new 
release occur


>   
> > 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.
> >
> >     
>
> This is the part that most interests me.
> Sabayon Linux seems to be a great multimedia-oriented-Gentoo-based
> distribution. It could give us a big boost (this week it's #10 on
> distrowatch.com chart; Gentoo is #11 :P) and we could give them a big
> boost too.
>
> Right now I'm downloading the latest DVD version (it'll take some time
> :\ uber-slow DSL connection right here).
> The previous one was amazing, anyway.
>   

I've already download them and also tried it quickly.
It really works nice out of da box (several desktops and wm are included)
> I know there's at least another audio-oriented-Gentoo-based
> distribution, called Bardix, but I didn't try it (I don't speak German).
> Are there other project already started so I can check them (I find
> useless spending time to start something from scratch when there's
> already good work done around the world)?
> Greetz
>
> Paolo
>
>
>   
haven't tried bardix but it seems its just comes with very minimal choice of
apps and based on fluxbox. We could try to ask bardix creator if he'd
like to participate