Mailing List Archive: Multimedia overlay

Multimedia overlay

Aug 10, 2009, 3:28 PM

Post #1 of 33 (1187 views)

Hi,

The qting-edge overlay (the official overlay for the Gentoo Qt team) is
a great success as a place to develop new ebuilds, packages, eclasses,
to prepare new releases, to maintain bleeding edge stuff like live
ebuilds and especially as a training ground for new recruits. I thought
it would be a good idea to do something similar for our multimedia
related projects, and Steve "beandog" Dibb agreed.

So hereby we announce the Gentoo Multimedia overlay. It is located at
http://gitorious.org/gentoo-multimedia and any developers who want to
join can let us know their gitorious account name, so they can be added.
Administration of the overlay will be shared among the participating
Gentoo devs, so new committers can quickly be added. Any users that want
commit status can get access after their work is found to be of
sufficient quality. We encourage this, as the overlay is also a training
ground for new contributors to Gentoo.

We would like to invite anyone interested in developing and maintaining
ebuilds related to multimedia in the wider sense: video, sound, tv,
graphics and fonts. If you have any live ebuilds or otherwise bleeding
edge packages, you can move them to the overlay for testing and shared
maintenance.

Enjoy!

Ben

Re: Multimedia overlay [ In reply to ]

webmaster at hartwork

Aug 10, 2009, 3:53 PM

Post #2 of 33 (1156 views)

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Ben de Groot wrote:
> So hereby we announce the Gentoo Multimedia overlay. It is located at
> http://gitorious.org/gentoo-multimedia and any developers who want to
> join can let us know their gitorious account name, so they can be added.

Good idea!

Out of curiousity: Is a gitorious account a technical must or would an
SSH pubkey do as well?

Sebastian

Re: Multimedia overlay [ In reply to ]

yngwin at gentoo

Aug 10, 2009, 4:22 PM

Post #3 of 33 (1156 views)

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Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> Good idea!
>
> Out of curiousity: Is a gitorious account a technical must or would an
> SSH pubkey do as well?

you need a gitorious account for commit access

Re: Multimedia overlay [ In reply to ]

tommy at gentoo

Aug 10, 2009, 5:06 PM

Post #4 of 33 (1155 views)

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Ben de Groot schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> The qting-edge overlay (the official overlay for the Gentoo Qt team) is
> a great success as a place to develop new ebuilds, packages, eclasses,
> to prepare new releases, to maintain bleeding edge stuff like live
> ebuilds and especially as a training ground for new recruits. I thought
> it would be a good idea to do something similar for our multimedia
> related projects, and Steve "beandog" Dibb agreed.
>
> So hereby we announce the Gentoo Multimedia overlay. It is located at
> http://gitorious.org/gentoo-multimedia and any developers who want to
> join can let us know their gitorious account name, so they can be added.
> Administration of the overlay will be shared among the participating
> Gentoo devs, so new committers can quickly be added. Any users that want
> commit status can get access after their work is found to be of
> sufficient quality. We encourage this, as the overlay is also a training
> ground for new contributors to Gentoo.
>
> We would like to invite anyone interested in developing and maintaining
> ebuilds related to multimedia in the wider sense: video, sound, tv,
> graphics and fonts. If you have any live ebuilds or otherwise bleeding
> edge packages, you can move them to the overlay for testing and shared
> maintenance.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Ben
>
>

Is there a special reason, why we need to split things even more? Why not invite those devs and
interested users to sunrise? Training ground for interested users is one of the main goals of our
project.

--
Thomas Sachau

Gentoo Linux Developer

Re: Multimedia overlay [ In reply to ]

halcy0n at gentoo

Aug 10, 2009, 5:10 PM

Post #5 of 33 (1156 views)

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Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org> said:
> So hereby we announce the Gentoo Multimedia overlay. It is located at
> http://gitorious.org/gentoo-multimedia and any developers who want to
> join can let us know their gitorious account name, so they can be added.
> Administration of the overlay will be shared among the participating
> Gentoo devs, so new committers can quickly be added. Any users that want
> commit status can get access after their work is found to be of
> sufficient quality. We encourage this, as the overlay is also a training
> ground for new contributors to Gentoo.

Why can't this be on our official overlays? Is there a technical
reason, because we seem to just be spreading things out even more than
necessary.

--
Mark Loeser
email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org
email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com
web - http://www.halcy0n.com

Re: Multimedia overlay [ In reply to ]

realnc at arcor

Aug 10, 2009, 6:20 PM

Post #6 of 33 (1168 views)

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On 08/11/2009 03:06 AM, Thomas Sachau wrote:
> Ben de Groot schrieb:
>> So hereby we announce the Gentoo Multimedia overlay.
>> [...]
>
> Is there a special reason, why we need to split things even more? Why not invite those devs and
> interested users to sunrise? Training ground for interested users is one of the main goals of our
> project.

No, please not to sunrise :P Don't make us remove sunrise from our
installations because it will start wanting to replace packages from
portage with its own, more bleeding edge than bleeding edge versions.
Let it continue to offer packages that are not available at all in
portage, instead of offering newer versions of packages that are already
in portage. Thank you :P

Re: Multimedia overlay [ In reply to ]

mescalinum at gentoo

Aug 10, 2009, 6:21 PM

Post #7 of 33 (1155 views)

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Ben de Groot wrote:
> We would like to invite anyone interested in developing and maintaining
> ebuilds related to multimedia in the wider sense: video, sound, tv,
> graphics and fonts. If you have any live ebuilds or otherwise bleeding
> edge packages, you can move them to the overlay for testing and shared
> maintenance.

note that for sound-related packages there exists pro-audio overlay

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Re: Multimedia overlay [ In reply to ]

nightmorph at gentoo

Aug 10, 2009, 9:02 PM

Post #8 of 33 (1158 views)

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Ben de Groot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The qting-edge overlay (the official overlay for the Gentoo Qt team) is
> a great success as a place to develop new ebuilds, packages, eclasses,
> to prepare new releases, to maintain bleeding edge stuff like live
> ebuilds and especially as a training ground for new recruits. I thought
> it would be a good idea to do something similar for our multimedia
> related projects, and Steve "beandog" Dibb agreed.
>
> So hereby we announce the Gentoo Multimedia overlay. It is located at
> http://gitorious.org/gentoo-multimedia and any developers who want to
> join can let us know their gitorious account name, so they can be added.
> Administration of the overlay will be shared among the participating
> Gentoo devs, so new committers can quickly be added. Any users that want
> commit status can get access after their work is found to be of
> sufficient quality. We encourage this, as the overlay is also a training
> ground for new contributors to Gentoo.
>
> We would like to invite anyone interested in developing and maintaining
> ebuilds related to multimedia in the wider sense: video, sound, tv,
> graphics and fonts. If you have any live ebuilds or otherwise bleeding
> edge packages, you can move them to the overlay for testing and shared
> maintenance.

Why isn't this on git.overlays.gentoo.org?

If it's not on Gentoo infrastructure, it's not "official."

Re: Multimedia overlay [ In reply to ]

darkside at gentoo

Aug 10, 2009, 9:40 PM

Post #9 of 33 (1155 views)

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Josh Saddler wrote:

> Why isn't this on git.overlays.gentoo.org?
>
> If it's not on Gentoo infrastructure, it's not "official."
>
>

Q: Are All Official Overlays Hosted On overlays.gentoo.org?

A: No. Gentoo developers are free to put their overlay wherever suits
them best; they don't have to use overlays.gentoo.org if they don't want to.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml

Re: Multimedia overlay [ In reply to ]

nightmorph at gentoo

Aug 10, 2009, 11:28 PM

Post #10 of 33 (1167 views)

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Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> Josh Saddler wrote:
>
>> Why isn't this on git.overlays.gentoo.org?
>>
>> If it's not on Gentoo infrastructure, it's not "official."
>>
> Q: Are All Official Overlays Hosted On overlays.gentoo.org?
>
> A: No. Gentoo developers are free to put their overlay wherever suits
> them best; they don't have to use overlays.gentoo.org if they don't want
> to.
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml

I'm well aware of that. It's A Dumb Policy(tm). :)

Re: Multimedia overlay [ In reply to ]

hwoarang at gentoo

Aug 11, 2009, 1:34 AM

Post #11 of 33 (1163 views)

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On Tuesday 11 August 2009 03:06:21 Thomas Sachau wrote:
> Ben de Groot schrieb:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The qting-edge overlay (the official overlay for the Gentoo Qt team) is
> > a great success as a place to develop new ebuilds, packages, eclasses,
> > to prepare new releases, to maintain bleeding edge stuff like live
> > ebuilds and especially as a training ground for new recruits. I thought
> > it would be a good idea to do something similar for our multimedia
> > related projects, and Steve "beandog" Dibb agreed.
> >
> > So hereby we announce the Gentoo Multimedia overlay. It is located at
> > http://gitorious.org/gentoo-multimedia and any developers who want to
> > join can let us know their gitorious account name, so they can be added.
> > Administration of the overlay will be shared among the participating
> > Gentoo devs, so new committers can quickly be added. Any users that want
> > commit status can get access after their work is found to be of
> > sufficient quality. We encourage this, as the overlay is also a training
> > ground for new contributors to Gentoo.
> >
> > We would like to invite anyone interested in developing and maintaining
> > ebuilds related to multimedia in the wider sense: video, sound, tv,
> > graphics and fonts. If you have any live ebuilds or otherwise bleeding
> > edge packages, you can move them to the overlay for testing and shared
> > maintenance.
> >
> > Enjoy!
> >
> > Ben
>
> Is there a special reason, why we need to split things even more? Why not
> invite those devs and interested users to sunrise? Training ground for
> interested users is one of the main goals of our project.
@Ben
Great news. We do maintain many multimedia packages on qting-edge so those can
me moved to multimedia overlay since I think it is more appropriate.

@Thomas, I think you missed the "bleeding edge" part of Ben's e-mail :). By
"bleeding edge" we mean live, snapshots or even version bumps for many
packages that are not ready or well tested to be on portage tree yet. Sunrise
philosophy is to NOT include ebuilds for packages that are already on portage
so we can't use sunrise as an alternative.
--
Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
Gentoo Linux Developer [KDE/Qt/Sound/Sunrise]
Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org

Re: Multimedia overlay [ In reply to ]

rbu at gentoo

Aug 11, 2009, 2:08 AM

Post #12 of 33 (1155 views)

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On Tuesday 11 August 2009, Josh Saddler wrote:
> Why isn't this on git.overlays.gentoo.org?

I'm not going to request access to the overlay, so I respect if media
herds want this to be hosted on gitorious.

In my opinion, the entrance barrier for devs is lower on git.overlays,
there is no signup, password, mail verification required. There's
scripts to keep the ssh keys in LDAP and on git.overlays in sync, and
people can just request access to at overlays@g.o and usually get it
done within 24 hours.

Anyway, good luck with more media powaaah!

Robert

Re: Multimedia overlay [ In reply to ]

reavertm at poczta

Aug 11, 2009, 3:40 AM

Post #13 of 33 (1157 views)

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On Tuesday 11 of August 2009 11:08:34 Robert Buchholz wrote:

> In my opinion, the entrance barrier for devs is lower on git.overlays,
> there is no signup, password, mail verification required. There's
> scripts to keep the ssh keys in LDAP and on git.overlays in sync, and
> people can just request access to at overlays@g.o and usually get it
> done within 24 hours.

Except usually it takes much longer than 24 hours (like over a month in my
case).
No, thank you.

Good luck with new overlay yngwin :)

--
regards
MM

Re: Multimedia overlay [ In reply to ]

rbu at gentoo

Aug 11, 2009, 5:57 AM

Post #14 of 33 (1158 views)

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On Tuesday 11 August 2009, Maciej Mrozowski wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 of August 2009 11:08:34 Robert Buchholz wrote:
> > In my opinion, the entrance barrier for devs is lower on
> > git.overlays, there is no signup, password, mail verification
> > required. There's scripts to keep the ssh keys in LDAP and on
> > git.overlays in sync, and people can just request access to at
> > overlays@g.o and usually get it done within 24 hours.
>
> Except usually it takes much longer than 24 hours (like over a month
> in my case).
> No, thank you.

Please do not generalise from your case. I do not have the history back
when your key was added, but the last mail dates I could correlate to
gitosis commits draw a different image:
2009-07-29: dev overlay creation, 80 minutes lag
2009-07-23: user key change, 27 minutes lag
2009-07-12: user added, 17 minutes lag
2009-06-09: user key change, 18:50 hours lag
2009-06-07: project overlay creation, 14:28 hours lag
2009-05-18: user key added, 14 minutes lag

If you need something, mail overlays@g.o and if no one replies within
three days, mail again. And if you still encounter shortage of time,
sign up to be a dev and help out.

Robert

Re: Multimedia overlay [ In reply to ]

webmaster at hartwork

Aug 11, 2009, 6:31 AM

Post #15 of 33 (1154 views)

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Federico Ferri wrote:
> note that for sound-related packages there exists pro-audio overlay

my impression is that pro-audio really focuses on _professional_ audio
software. that's two very different sets of applications. i don't see
any benefits from mixing them, do you?

sebastian

Re: Multimedia overlay [ In reply to ]

webmaster at hartwork

Aug 11, 2009, 6:34 AM

Post #16 of 33 (1157 views)

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Josh Saddler wrote:
> I'm well aware of that. It's A Dumb Policy(tm). :)

What advantage do you see in forcing people to have their overlays
hosted on http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/ ?

Sebastian

Re: Multimedia overlay [ In reply to ]

ford_prefect at gentoo

Aug 11, 2009, 8:07 AM

Post #17 of 33 (1160 views)

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2009/8/11 Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@hartwork.org>:
> Josh Saddler wrote:
>> I'm well aware of that. It's A Dumb Policy(tm). :)
>
> What advantage do you see in forcing people to have their overlays
> hosted on http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/ ?

The advantage is primarily that we retain control of the
infrastructure on which it (the official Gentoo project) is hosted.
--
Arun Raghavan
http://arunraghavan.net/
(Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: Multimedia overlay [ In reply to ]

reavertm at poczta

Aug 11, 2009, 9:12 AM

Post #18 of 33 (1153 views)

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On Tuesday 11 of August 2009 17:07:47 Arun Raghavan wrote:

> The advantage is primarily that we retain control of the
> infrastructure on which it (the official Gentoo project) is hosted.

Yes, and this is the problem.
That's probably why there's still no CIA.vc bot tracking kde-testing overlay
on #gentoo-kde
Being able to grant/revoke overlay access easily is of course other thing.

--
regards
MM

Re: Multimedia overlay [ In reply to ]

nirbheek at gentoo

Aug 11, 2009, 9:30 AM

Post #19 of 33 (1150 views)

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2009/8/11 Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@poczta.fm>:
> That's probably why there's still no CIA.vc bot tracking kde-testing overlay
> on #gentoo-kde

Actually, you can totally blame Arun for this. *point* *grin*

--
~Nirbheek Chauhan

GNOME Team, Gentoo

Re: Multimedia overlay [ In reply to ]

hwoarang at gentoo

Aug 11, 2009, 10:22 AM

Post #20 of 33 (1152 views)

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On Tuesday 11 August 2009 18:07:47 Arun Raghavan wrote:
> 2009/8/11 Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@hartwork.org>:
> > Josh Saddler wrote:
> >> I'm well aware of that. It's A Dumb Policy(tm). :)
> >
> > What advantage do you see in forcing people to have their overlays
> > hosted on http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/ ?
>
> The advantage is primarily that we retain control of the
> infrastructure on which it (the official Gentoo project) is hosted.
Sorry but IMHO this is not an argument. By hosting projects/overlays on
gitorious/github we can administer them more quickly without bothering infra
team for minor issues such as giving access to users/developers.
--
Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
Gentoo Linux Developer [KDE/Qt/Sound/Sunrise]
Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org

Re: Multimedia overlay [ In reply to ]

ford_prefect at gentoo

Aug 11, 2009, 10:38 AM

Post #21 of 33 (1151 views)

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2009/8/11 Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>:
[...]
>> The advantage is primarily that we retain control of the
>> infrastructure on which it (the official Gentoo project) is hosted.
> Sorry but IMHO this is not an argument. By hosting projects/overlays on
> gitorious/github we can administer them more quickly without bothering infra
> team for minor issues such as giving access to users/developers.

This still does not address the original problem - if
$external_service shuts down, is bought out, has arbitrary terms about
content that are not immediately clear as being unfavourable to us,
(at least) that part of the project which is hosted on is negatively
affected.

The 1-2 times that I asked for access to overlays, time taken was a
non-issue. If others have had problems, let's fix that instead.
--
Arun Raghavan
http://arunraghavan.net/
(Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: Multimedia overlay [ In reply to ]

nirbheek at gentoo

Aug 11, 2009, 10:52 AM

Post #22 of 33 (1153 views)

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On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Arun Raghavan<ford_prefect@gentoo.org> wrote:
> The 1-2 times that I asked for access to overlays, time taken was a
> non-issue. If others have had problems, let's fix that instead.

How much effort do you estimate would need to be invested to have a
webinterface (or similar) which lets overlay owners directly edit
access to their overlay(s)? One (easy) possibility I can think of is
ssh commands. I say "easy" because the service (ssh) and auth (ssh
keys) are already there.

--
~Nirbheek Chauhan

GNOME Team, Gentoo

Re: Multimedia overlay [ In reply to ]

ford_prefect at gentoo

Aug 11, 2009, 10:56 AM

Post #23 of 33 (1151 views)

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2009/8/11 Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org>:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Arun Raghavan<ford_prefect@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> The 1-2 times that I asked for access to overlays, time taken was a
>> non-issue. If others have had problems, let's fix that instead.
>
> How much effort do you estimate would need to be invested to have a
> webinterface (or similar) which lets overlay owners directly edit
> access to their overlay(s)? One (easy) possibility I can think of is
> ssh commands. I say "easy" because the service (ssh) and auth (ssh
> keys) are already there.

Doable, I think, but more man-power (I volunteer to help, btw) might
be, on the whole, a lower-effort and more secure option. That said,
Robin
--
Arun Raghavan
http://arunraghavan.net/
(Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: Multimedia overlay [ In reply to ]

reavertm at poczta

Aug 11, 2009, 1:46 PM

Post #24 of 33 (1150 views)

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On Tuesday 11 of August 2009 19:38:48 Arun Raghavan wrote:

> This still does not address the original problem - if
> $external_service shuts down, is bought out, has arbitrary terms about
> content that are not immediately clear as being unfavourable to us,
> (at least) that part of the project which is hosted on is negatively
> affected.

As far as git is concerned, there's no reason not to have this 'unsafe'
gitorious repo cloned on Gentoo within infra and synced periodically
(preferably with push disabled) for layman purpose. Development would still be
kept on gitorious as it's superior in terms of manageability.
I guess it satisfies both sides, doesn't it?

--
regards
MM

Re: Multimedia overlay [ In reply to ]

robbat2 at gentoo

Aug 11, 2009, 2:04 PM

Post #25 of 33 (1150 views)

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On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:26:17PM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote:
> 2009/8/11 Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org>:
> > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Arun Raghavan<ford_prefect@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >> The 1-2 times that I asked for access to overlays, time taken was a
> >> non-issue. If others have had problems, let's fix that instead.
> > How much effort do you estimate would need to be invested to have a
> > webinterface (or similar) which lets overlay owners directly edit
> > access to their overlay(s)? One (easy) possibility I can think of is
> > ssh commands. I say "easy" because the service (ssh) and auth (ssh
> > keys) are already there.
> Doable, I think, but more man-power (I volunteer to help, btw) might
> be, on the whole, a lower-effort and more secure option. That said,
> Robin
We'd run the software that powers repo.or.cz probably if we were going
to do that.

I've got no objection to it, we just need to see about keeping the
noise/spam down if we do open it like that.

Even if we did that, we'd need a couple more people on the overlays
management team. So I'd like to extend this invitation:
More developers willing to learn the bits needed to process Git overlay
requests are welcome to contact the alias, overlays@gentoo.org

--
Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy
E-Mail : robbat2@gentoo.org
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