[gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-plugins/rmxmms

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-plugins/rmxmms

[Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò]

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Another last rites mail for media apps... this is also the start of the end.

media-plugins/rmxxms is currently -* and p.masked, requires using realsdk and 
is probably obsolete/outdated. Noone is working on this afaik, XMMS has 
currently no upstream and there's no maintainer.

One week from now, rmxmms will be out of portage.

Please note: if in one week or a bit more nobody steps up for maintaining XMMS 
in portage, I'll start a phase out of XMMS itself, this means closing all its 
new plugins' ebuilds as WONTFIX, and then starting masking plugins with bugs 
open to remove them.

We're plenty of alternatives :)

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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/
Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-plugins/rmxmms

[Luis Medinas]

On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 18:59 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> Another last rites mail for media apps... this is also the start of the end.
> 
> media-plugins/rmxxms is currently -* and p.masked, requires using realsdk and 
> is probably obsolete/outdated. Noone is working on this afaik, XMMS has 
> currently no upstream and there's no maintainer.
> 
> One week from now, rmxmms will be out of portage.
> 
> Please note: if in one week or a bit more nobody steps up for maintaining XMMS 
> in portage, I'll start a phase out of XMMS itself, this means closing all its 
> new plugins' ebuilds as WONTFIX, and then starting masking plugins with bugs 
> open to remove them.
> 
> We're plenty of alternatives :)
> 
After talking with Diego i will maintain xmms packages (including
plugins and skins). I will remove a few obsolete packages and closing a
few bugs asap.
-- 
Luis Medinas <metalgod@gentoo.org>
http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod
Gentoo Linux Developer: AMD64,Printing,Media-Optical


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-plugins/rmxmms

[Chris Gianelloni]

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On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 19:22 +0000, Luis Medinas wrote:
> After talking with Diego i will maintain xmms packages (including
> plugins and skins). I will remove a few obsolete packages and closing a
> few bugs asap.

Excellent.  I was getting a bit worried that my favorite multimedia
application was about to be removed for no good reason.  Thanks for
deciding to maintain this package.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-plugins/rmxmms

[Luis Medinas]

On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 18:01 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 19:22 +0000, Luis Medinas wrote:
> > After talking with Diego i will maintain xmms packages (including
> > plugins and skins). I will remove a few obsolete packages and closing a
> > few bugs asap.
> 
> Excellent.  I was getting a bit worried that my favorite multimedia
> application was about to be removed for no good reason.  Thanks for
> deciding to maintain this package.
> 
eradicator did an amazing job maintaining xmms packages i hope i will
continue to maintain it good as well. Xmms is full of bugs for now i
will do a few version bumps and close a few bugs. I think is a good time
to split xmms plugins to xmms and bmp plugins. This is a work i will do
with Chainsaw(bmp maintainer).
-- 
Luis Medinas <metalgod@gentoo.org>
http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod
Gentoo Linux Developer: AMD64,Printing,Media-Optical,Xmms

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-plugins/rmxmms

[aeriksson]

> Another last rites mail for media apps... this is also the start of the end.
> 
> media-plugins/rmxxms is currently -* and p.masked, requires using realsdk and 
> is probably obsolete/outdated. Noone is working on this afaik, XMMS has 
> currently no upstream and there's no maintainer.
> 
> One week from now, rmxmms will be out of portage.
> 
> Please note: if in one week or a bit more nobody steps up for maintaining XMMS 
> in portage, I'll start a phase out of XMMS itself, this means closing all its 
> new plugins' ebuilds as WONTFIX, and then starting masking plugins with bugs 
> open to remove them.
> 
> We're plenty of alternatives :)
> 

Your mail triggered me to search for alternatives. Any suggestion? Currently
checking mpd and its frontends. At first glance, they all seem a bit limited.
But I like the approach with a separate core for the player logic...

/A


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-plugins/rmxmms

[Chris Gianelloni]

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On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 18:59 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> Please note: if in one week or a bit more nobody steps up for maintaining XMMS 
> in portage, I'll start a phase out of XMMS itself, this means closing all its 
> new plugins' ebuilds as WONTFIX, and then starting masking plugins with bugs 
> open to remove them.

Umm... WTF?  Is XMMS inherently broken or something?  Is upstream dead?
Are there huge security bugs on it?  If not, then you shouldn't go
removing it.  I know that I'd be pretty pissed if my favorite multimedia
application suddenly disappeared.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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