[PlanetCCRMA] [Fwd: Announcing the Audio Creation SIG / CCRMA merger effort]

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 18:28 -0500, Jan Depner wrote:
> If you can give me some pointers I'll be glad to handle JAMin.

I think this is the starting page to become a Fedora contributor:
  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join

Jamin would be a great package to move over... Let us (Hans, Anthony,
me) know if you need help. First time there's quite a bit of things to
navigate. 

-- Fernando


> On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 15:44 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > Just to keep you guys up to date... thanks to Hans for spearheading this
> > effort (second push to move packages to Fedora). Anyone in the list
> > wants to help? The infrastructure is there in Fedora-land for packaging
> > contributions, etc, etc...
> > 
> > -- Fernando
> > 
> > 
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > From: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl>
> > To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core
> > <fedora-devel-list at redhat.com>, fedora-music-list at redhat.com
> > Cc: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU>, Anthony Green
> > <green at redhat.com>
> > Subject: Announcing the Audio Creation SIG / CCRMA merger effort
> > Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:33:02 +0200
> > 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I've been talking lately with Fernando Lopez-Lezcano from CCRMA about making 
> > Fedora a better distro for Audio Creation, mainly focusing on a plan for 
> > getting his excellent CCRMA packages integrated in to Fedora.
> > 
> > Here is the plan we've come up with (quoting from the SIG's wiki page):
> > 
> > "Since Fernando's time is almost fully occupied with maintaining CCRMA and 
> > keeping it up to date, the effort of the integration of CCRMA packages into 
> > Fedora will be mostly done by other Fedora Contributers. The plan is that 
> > Fedora contributers go through CCRMA packages spec files to make them fully 
> > match the Fedora Packaging Guidelines and then submit them for review and make 
> > any necessary changes to pass review. Fernando will be put in the CC of the 
> > review, and will be made co-maintainer of packages want the are imported into 
> > the Fedora Package Collection. This way the packaging expertise and manpower of 
> > the Fedora Community can be combined with the vast Audio Creation experience of 
> > Fernando. This effort will be spearheaded by Hans de Goede (me)."
> > 
> > The SIG wiki says Fedora Contributers, as I'm hoping that some of you are also 
> > interested in this and are willing to help out. There are a lot of CCRMA 
> > packages and we could use your help. Hence the creation of the Audio Creation 
> > SIG, where all interested contributers can join and help out. The Audio 
> > Creation SIG is further described here:
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/AudioCreation
> > 
> > Even more then help with checking and fixing the packages for guidelines 
> > compliance, we need people to review them, I've submitted the first 4 for 
> > review and many more will follow. So if you have some interest in Audio 
> > Creation under Fedora, please help with reviewing audio related packages, there 
> > is an continuously kept up2date list of packages needing review on the wiki 
> > page. As most of you know I'm a very experienced packager, so the reviews 
> > should go as smooth as a babies buttocks :)
> > 
> > Thanks & Regards,
> > 
> > Hans