Re: [proaudio] Future/cleanup of proaudio overlay

[Ingolf Wagner <palipalo9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon and me are in on #proaudio-overlay on freenode. Maybe it makes 
more time to discuss stuff there.


On 05/14/2017 02:13 AM, Reuben Martin wrote:
> A large portion is obselete junk that could be dropped, or things that have
> since been included with portage, while at the same time there is software
> that doesn’t exist in the overlay that should probably there.
>
> Also, it might be prudent to move to git.
>
> -Reuben
>
> On Saturday, May 13, 2017 5:00:59 PM CDT Ingolf Wagner wrote:
> > I will join any new approach.
> >
> > /me is joining irc now. for further discussions
> >
> > On 05/13/2017 11:19 PM, Simon van der Veldt wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > First of all a quick introduction :)
> > > I'm new to this list, been using gentoo for +-3 years, doing audio
> > > stuff on it for about a year. Once starting with audio stuff I
> > > inevitably came into contact with the proaudio overlay, which served
> > > me pretty well back then, but nowadays seems to suffer from a lot of
> > > issues, which brings me to the subject of this message:
> > >
> > > Both on the forums and on this mailing list there have been several
> > > discussions involving multiple people with suggestions to start
> > > fixing/cleaning up the proaudio overlay, some of which even suggesting
> > > to start over.
> > >
> > > Has any of this happened so far?
> > > If not how can we get this going?
> > >
> > > Looking forward to working together on fixing this!
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Simon
> > >
> > > P.S. I checked #proaudio-overlay on freenode, but that was empty. Is
> > > this no longer the correct IRC channel?