[gentoo-dev] Multimedia overlay

[Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org>]

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