Re: [proaudio] Question for proaudio devs & team

[Frieder Buerzele <evermind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

sorry for missing your conversation. But atm my main machine has a
hardware failure and I was not able to reply to your emails.

Yes the overlay pretty outdated and needs updates. I will join the
update action as soon as I have restored my system and find some time.

Everybody that wants to help updating, whatever, please send me an
email with your username at tuxfamily and I'll give you permission to
the repository.


Thx for helping

Greetz Frieder


> Hello,
> 
> As I am a pro-audio user, I /need/ the upgrades, and as developer (not  
> gentoo's), I could contribute to simple ebuilds (or obvious bumps).
> 
> If the packages could rapidly reach the main portage tree, this is the  
> better solution regarding perennity.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Xavier Miller.
> 
> Quoting Alexis Ballier <aballier@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
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> > Hi,
> >
> >> Or ask Gentoo to incorporate pro-audio in a more maintained overlay?
> >
> > If that's just about hosting I suppose I could ask for a git proaudio
> > overlay on overlays.gentoo.org. Or svn if you prefer svn. Remark that
> > if it is easy to ask for official hosting, that doesn't solve the main
> > problem: manpower.
> >
> > Note that, for me, overlays are for staging stuff that haven't made it
> > to the main tree yet; hence, the smaller the overlay is, the better.
> > When I discover some new interesting package, I polish an ebuild for it
> > and put it in the main tree, maintaining my own overlay is too much
> > work :) I understand that bugzilla is not the best tool to get stuff
> > merged for people that don't have gentoo-x86 access but that's what we
> > have now :/ Overlays do not get enough visibility, merging stuff to the
> > main tree solves this and gives more infrastructure: everyone
> > can easily install it, tarballs are mirrored, automated checks are
> > performed on the packages, etc.
> >
> > Considering the fact that getting gentoo-x86 cvs access is a long and
> > tedious task that not many people are willing to take the time to do,
> > we could probably get a much better situation by at least improving
> > cooperation.
> >
> > Whereever the overlay is hosted, what I would like to see is indeed some
> > "priority list" for merging packages from the overlay, so that I can
> > easily know what needs more attention. When merging new packages, I
> > would like to have a proxy-maintainer and an implicit promise that (s)he
> > won't disappear as soon as the package will be merged leaving it in the
> > hands of the understaffed proaudio herd. The overlay can then be used
> > to ease the proxy-maintainance: push changes there, poke a gentoo dev
> > to merge the changes to gentoo-x86.
> >
> > Alexis.
> >