2013/12/23 Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk>: > Quoting Bálint Réczey (2013-12-23 12:21:28) >> 2013/12/23 Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu>: >>> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 08:39:17PM +0100, Balint Reczey wrote: >>>> Thank you for the invitation. I don't know the full story behind >>>> XBMC and the Multimedia Team, thus I would like to start >>>> maintaining it outside of the team, then when both upstream and the >>>> team is satisfied with XBMC's state in Debian I would happily join. >>> >>> You are free to do your voluntary work the way you like it but as >>> some kind advise I would like to tell you that doing things in teams >>> is often fruitful and you are somehow refusing the help of others if >>> you follow this strategy. >> I would have happily accepted the offer immediately and would have >> joined the team if upstream had not been very skeptical about >> maintaining XBMC in Debian at all [1]. > >> I made promises regarding the way of maintaining the package and I >> think it would look bad if right when starting th maintenance I put it >> under the umbrella of Multimedia Team and bring a team of additional >> maintainers aboard. >> I have just subscribed to the Multimedia mailing lists and I'll post >> my introduction >> to join the team. I just would like to join with XBMC later, after I >> discussed it with >> upstream in advance and they (and Multimedia Team, too) are happy >> about it. >> >> Cheers, >> Balint >> >> [2] http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=177474&page=1 > > Your approach and dialogue upstream looks quite good to me! Thank you! I have uploaded 2:12.2+dfsg1-1 and wrote a blog article [3] to explain the changes. So far the package looks OK, but there is a lot of room for improvements. Patches (and other forms of help) are always welcome! :-)
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