Bits from the Debian Multimedia Team

Since there has been a lot happening in the Debian Multimedia world during the Squeeze release, so we figured we should give you an update on that.

Who are we?

In the dark old ages, there were two teams involved in multimedia: the Debian Multimedia and Debian Multimedia Packages teams. Note that neither of them is related to debian-multimedia.org. Both teams were merged into one, the Debian Multimedia Maintainers team, to avoid effort fragmentation. Since then, there has been a lot of work done:

Consumer Multimedia in Debian

Consumer Multimedia is about playing and, well, consuming multimedia. Squeeze will feature:

Fill in interesting stuff

Producer Multimedia in Debian

Producer multimedia is software for producing multimedia. Squeeze will feature:

Squeeze will not feature:

Fill in more interesting stuff

Debian Multimedia Blend

There is also an effort to start a Debian Multimedia Blend to give a better overview about what multimedia applications are available in Debian. There is a short list[1] for a quick overview as well as a long package list separated in sections to give a more detailed overview (including translations, screenshots, popularity of package etc)[2]. You are invited to help improving the tasks either directly in SVN[3] or by sending patches to Andreas Tille[4] or debian-muldimedia@lists.debian.org (see below).

For those who want to squash some bugs in multimedia packages there is also the bugs page generated by the Blends tools[5].

Where to reach us

The Debian Multimedia Maintainers can be reached at pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org, should you have any questions. We have also decided to repurpose the old debian-muldimedia@lists.debian.org address for user and more general discussion. We would like to invite everyone interested in multimedia to join us there.

[1] http://blends.alioth.debian.org/multimedia/packagelist

[2] http://blends.alioth.debian.org/multimedia/tasks

[3] svn://svn.debian.org/svn/blends/projects/multimedia/trunk/debian-multimedia/tasks

[4] mailto:tille@debian.org

[5] http://blends.alioth.debian.org/multimedia/bugs