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= Task description =

''The Debian Multimedia Maintainers team aims to make Debian a good platform for audio and multimedia work. This basically means packaging/maintaining multimedia applications and libraries, and collaborating with other maintainers or teams as well as upstream projects in order to improve audio/video support in Debian.''

= Get involved =

 * First read the [[DebianMultimedia/FAQ|FAQ]] and consider if you want to [[DebianMultimedia/Join|join]] the team.
 * ''Help clean up bugs in [[http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=maint&data=debian-multimedia%40lists.debian.org&archive=no&version=&dist=unstable|bugs.debian.org]].''
 * ''Help with [[DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging|packaging]].''

= deb-multimedia.org =

This team has nothing to do with deb-multimedia.org. See [[DebianMultimedia/FAQ]] for further details.

= Infrastructure =

 * '''Mailinglists''':
  ''https://lists.debian.org/debian-multimedia/'' for general Debian multimedia and packaging discussion
 * '''Packages QA''':
  ''https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian-multimedia@lists.debian.org''
 * '''[[http://pet.debian.net|PET]] Instance''':
  ''http://pet.debian.net/pkg-multimedia/pet.cgi''
 * '''Debian Maintainer Dashboard''':
  ''https://udd.debian.org/dmd.cgi?email1=debian-multimedia%40lists.debian.org&email2=&email3=&packages=''
 * '''Debian Pure Blends pages''':

  ''http://blends.debian.org/multimedia/tasks/index'' For the list of tasks that packages are categories into

  ''http://blends.alioth.debian.org/multimedia/'' For a summary of activity from Multimedia Team contributors

 * '''Salsa Project''': ''https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team''
 * '''Launchpad Project''': ''https://launchpad.net/~pkg-multimedia-maintainers''
 * '''Git Repositories''': List at ''https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team'', web interface at ''https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/<package>.git''

= Realtime kernel =

The Debian Multimedia team is not working on including a kernel image with the realtime-patches applied in Debian. Much of the realtime-patches have been accepted in the mainline kernel, to the point that for most purposes the stock Debian kernel is suitable even for realtime-like work.

Pengutronix has been working on [[http://www.pengutronix.de/software/linux-rt/debian_en.html|realtime-patches]] for Linux kernel and now those patches are part of Debian official kernel, Debian Linux-RT kernel for the [[DebianPkg:linux-image-rt-686-pae|i386]] and [[DebianPkg:linux-image-rt-amd64|amd64]] architectures is available from Debian main archive.

= Backports =

Any backports created by the team are uploaded to the official Debian backports service, please check the instructions to [[http://backports-master.debian.org/Instructions/|use]] them or [[http://backports-master.debian.org/Contribute/|contribute]] to them.

= Interaction =

 * [[https://lists.debian.org/debian-multimedia/|Mailing list]] - development list
 * IRC: [[irc://irc.debian.org/debian-multimedia|#debian-multimedia]] on irc.debian.org (OFTC)
     NB: if you drop in and don't get an immediate answer, hang around for awhile and you'll have a better 
     chance of someone getting back to you.
 * [[/DevelopPackaging]] - coordinate the packaging effort
 * [[/Sponsoring]] - getting your multimedia related packages sponsored quickly
 * [[/Formats]] - Open multimedia file formats in Debian
 * [[/Discussion]] - make Debian a rocking audio/video workstation
 * [[/Policy]] - system guidelines and specifications
 * [[/Links]] - other interesting projects and pages
 * [[/MultimediaCodecs]] - information about codecs available for Debian and how to install them

= Usual roles =

Currently there are no strict roles defined. All members can work on all packages, although there is some sort of split. A list of people actively involved in the packaging effort can be found [[https://salsa.debian.org/groups/multimedia-team/-/group_members|here]].

''TODO document''

= History =

The ''Debian Multimedia Maintainers'' team is the result of the merger of the ''Debian Multimedia'' team and the ''Debian Multimedia Packages'' team. There is still some duplicate infrastructure that should converge on a best-effort basis.

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