Meeting Date: 2009-12-03 at 15:00 UTC
Agenda Items
Package Lifecycle (proposing new packages, removing/orphaning old or obsolete packages, etc). -- ?ReinhardTartler
Does the team have to push audio/video related migrations in the distribution (eg, PulseAudio)? If so, how? -- ?FelipeSateler
- debimedia
CIA IRC Bot (already done -- thanks ceros!
) - Should we close down debian-multimedia alioth project and l.d.o list to avoid confusing people and complete consolidation?
- Who are our DDs/DMs with upload rights and moving more of us toward that status to spread the load.
- Running a beginner's how-to session to aid new members in learning the ropes (via IRC)
- (insert further topics)
- schedule next meeting (edrz suggests leaving this as last item)
Minutes
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1st #debian-multimedia Meeting on Thursday, 03 Dec 2009
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Meeting started by siretart` at 15:02:19 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-multimedia/2009/debian-multimedia.2009-12-03-15.02.log.html
.
Meeting summary
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* introduction round (siretart`, 15:03:32)
* the present team members introduced themselves
* sponsoring and spreading the load among DDs (siretart`, 15:12:56)
* A backlog of packages to be uploaded was pointed out by
siretart` and confirmed by free.
* It was pointed out that our wiki pages generally could need
some rework. Pages like:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging
indeed have much useful information, but could generally need
some cleanups.
* ACTION: edrz agrees to update wiki with stuff agreed in this
meeting. (edrz, 15:20:26)
* It was proposed to create checklist with recommendations on
how to make potential sponsor their lives easier:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/Sponsoring
* ACTION: DDs will list their packaging tool preference on
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/Sponsoring (edrz, 15:32:33)
* improving packaging guidelines (siretart`, 15:26:06)
* bdrung asked if we should recommend dpkg source format
3.0 (quilt). The general consensus was that there was no
immediate need for it but not all helper tools like
git-buildpackage properly cope with it.
* the team agreed to mandate DEP-3 headers in patches
* ACTION: siretart` fsateler agree to update DevelopPackaging on wiki
0K . (edrz, 15:39:13)
* Package lifecycle and scope of the team (siretart`, 15:27:07)
* siretart asked "under which situations do we want to consider
orphaning or removing the package from the team and/or
Debian". Lool proposed to test the interest in a package
among team members in order to find out if a package
is "acceptable" for the team.
* siretart then suggested to use the uploaders field of
debian/control for documenting interest. The first person
listed there should be the regular uploader, followed by
names of team members supporting the package. No real
objection was raised.
* There is no strict enforcement on this, though it was agreed
to start a discussion on the list as needed.
* edrz notes that a team member is a person with an Alioth
account who has been added to pkg-multimedia-maintainers
team (edrz, 15:45:53)
* Next meeting
* edrz setup a new doodle poll for the next meeting. It will
happen early to mid of January. Please vote your preference:
http://www.doodle.com/ak6vpsx65zswnetg
* topics postponed to next meeting: debimedia, pulseaudio, mentoring
sessions. (edrz, 15:55:43)
Meeting ended at 16:01:23 UTC.
Action Items
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* edrz agrees to update wiki with stuff agreed in this meeting.
* DDs will list their packaging tool preference on
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/Sponsoring
* siretart` fsateler agree to update DevelopPackaging on wiki
Action Items, by person
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* edrz
* edrz agrees to update wiki with stuff agreed in this meeting.
* fsateler
* siretart` fsateler agree to update DevelopPackaging on wiki
* siretart`
* siretart` fsateler agree to update DevelopPackaging on wiki
* **UNASSIGNED**
* DDs will list their packaging tool preference on
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/Sponsoring
People Present (lines said)
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* siretart` (111)
* lool (66)
* edrz (46)
* free (45)
* bdrung (27)
* fsateler (26)
* helmut (18)
* adi (7)
* MeetBot (2)
* LucidFox (2)