Alioth Project News

smcroute 0.95 released

Micha Lenk — 2011-08-12T07:14:12+00:00

We are proud to announce the release of smcroute 0.95. The biggest change in this release is the added support for FreeBSD.

https://alioth.debian.org/frs/shownotes.php?release_id=1713

Joining the Team

Andrea Veri — 2011-08-02T17:59:44+00:00

When asking to join the team make sure to:

1. Present yourself to the team on our IRC channel hosted on OFTC. (#debian-mozext)

2. Read the documentation on http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianMozExtTeam.

3. Set up a new repository for your module following this HowTo:
http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianMozExtTeam/CIA_Hooks

4. Join our Mailing Lists.

Repository moved to git

Thomas Girard — 2011-06-27T18:15:41+00:00

ACE+TAO packaging was moved to git.

Read-only anonymous access at:
git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-ace/pkg-ace.git

manpages-fr-extra moved to git

Simon Paillard — 2011-06-27T18:15:32+00:00

manpages-fr-extra has been moved to git :
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-manpages-fr/manpages-fr-extra.git
git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-manpages-fr/manpages-fr-extra.git
git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-manpages-fr/manpages-fr-extra.git

New LILO version 23.2 is released

Joachim Wiedorn — 2011-04-15T06:58:27+00:00

This new version now works with very new linux kernels (>= 2.6.36). Added some fixes for source code and manpages. Added new scripts liloconfig and lilo-uuid-diskid as used for Debian.

apt-offline 1.1. released

Ritesh Raj Sarraf — 2011-04-15T06:57:46+00:00

* Advanced Options window for the GUI
* Many Bug Fixes
* Basic Proxy support

Version 1.5.0 Available

T Molteno — 2011-04-15T06:57:40+00:00

Hi Everyone

There have been many changes since the last version announcement. We're up to version 1.5, at it is highly recommended that you try this version as it has some very nice features like segment intersection detection.

Changes since 1.3 are as follows

Version 1.5 - 2010-10-02
* Added a test for segment midpoint intersections. If two wires are joined at acute angles to each other, this
can lead to inaccurate simulations. If either the first or last segment midpoint of a wire lies inside any other wire
an exception is thrown with a message.
* Better exception handling in the Ruby binding. Exception's now have their messages passed through.
* Improved preporting of power gain. This means that hopefully (not quite fully tested) the gain
normalization does not any longer have any effect on the get_maximum_gain functions e.t.c.
* Modified to work with atlas 3.8
* Fixed up the benchmark to avoid wires at a very acute angles (violating the midpoint intersection test)

Version 1.4 - 2009-01-02
* Added accessor functions for radiation pattern statistics.
* Renamed some methods
* Added Ruby Wrapper to the C library
* Added code to detect wire intersections and throw an exception.
* Renamed some methods in the C library interface. This makes a more logical grouping when
getting statistics from radiation patterns.
* Added Ruby Wrapper to the C library libnecpp. This code is in the directory Ruby.

GIT repository created

Marcin Owsiany — 2011-04-04T07:50:42+00:00

Cruft codebase is now maintained in a git repository at git://github.com/porridge/cruft.git
It's viewable via https://github.com/porridge/cruft

The SVN repository is deprecated and will be deleted soon.

SCM switches from CVS to git; mirror on github

Barak A. Pearlmutter — 2011-01-10T08:46:04+00:00

The source control system for Oaklisp has been switched from CVS to git (git://scm.alioth.debian.org/git/oaklisp/oaklisp.git) with a mirror on git://github.com/barak/oaklisp.git

Bits from the Debian Multimedia Maintainers

Alessio Treglia — 2010-11-15T09:00:53+00:00

Hi!

Since there has been a lot happening in the Debian Multimedia world
during the Squeeze release, so we figured we should give you an update
on that.

Who are we?
~~~~~~~~~~

In the dark old ages, there were two teams involved in multimedia: the
Debian Multimedia and Debian Multimedia Packages teams. Please note that
neither of them is related to debian-multimedia.org[1]. During late
2008, both teams were merged into one, the Debian Multimedia Maintainers
team, to avoid effort fragmentation. Since then, there has been a lot of
work done:

Consumer Multimedia in Debian
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Consumer Multimedia is about playing and, well, consuming multimedia.
Squeeze will feature:

* FFmpeg 0.5.2, finally uncrippled thanks to zack! No mp3/h264
encoder, though. (still in NEW).
* mplayer 1.0rc3, finally with mencoder enabled.
* VLC 1.1.3
* VDPAU hardware acceleration in ffmpeg/mplayer (but feedback is
welcome!)
* Guayadeque 0.2.5
* gmusicbrowser 1.0.2

Squeeze will not feature:

* FFmpeg 0.6 (But already available in experimental)
* Hardware acceleration with VA-API (packages also in experimental,
for support on Intel hardware).

Producer Multimedia in Debian
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Producer multimedia is software for producing multimedia. Squeeze will
feature:

End user applications:

* Ardour 2.8.11
* Audacity 1.3.12
* Composite 0.006
* Csound 5.12. The QuteCsound frontend is also available.
* FluidSynth 1.1.1
* Hydrogen 0.9.4.1
* Internet DJ Console 0.8.3
* Jokosher 0.11.5
* LiVES 1.3.4
* mhWaveEdit 1.4.20
* morituri 0.1.1
* QTractor 0.4.6
* Rosegarden 10.04.2
* SooperLooper 1.6.14
* Traverso 0.49.1
* X Jack Video Monitor 0.4.13
* Yoshimi 0.058.1

Platforms and technologies:

* JACK versions 0.118 and 1.9.6 (aka, jackd1 and jackd2). You can
choose to install any of them (but only one at a time).
* LV2 plugins are supported. Ardour has support for them, and there
are a bunch of them provided in Debian.
* LADSPA plugins are still supported.
* DSSI updated to 1.0.0, many plugins are available.
* FireWire sound devices are supported with libffado, and is supported
by JACK.

Squeeze will not feature:

* JACK session support.
* Ardour 3 (it's not out yet, so it did not make it in time for
squeeze).
* SuperCollider. There is a package in the works, but did not make it
to Squeeze.
* Toonloop: This live stop-motion animation editor has been packaged
only recently.
* NASPRO: Convenient library to implement LV2 dynamic manifest
plugins. It's available in Sid.
* Mixxx: 1.7 series had RC bugs, and 1.8 was too late for squeeze.

Debian Multimedia Blend
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

There is also an effort to start a Debian Multimedia Blend to give a
better overview about what multimedia applications are available in
Debian. There is a short list[2] for a quick overview as well as a long
package list separated in sections to give a more detailed overview
(including translations, screenshots, popularity of package etc)[3]. You
are invited to help improving the tasks either directly in SVN[4] or by
sending patches to Andreas Tille or
debian-multimedia@lists.debian.org (see below). Note that not all of the
packages listed in the tasks pages are maintained by the Debian
Multimedia team, since they are aimed at producing useful package sets
instead of showing only our own packages.

For those who want to squash some bugs in multimedia packages there is
also the bugs page generated by the Blends tools[5], or our team bug
page[6].

Other activity
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The team has seen a lot of growth since the merger. Of the current 52
members of the alioth team, 20 were added during 2009 and 18 in 2010,
many of whom are involved in upstream development as well as the debian
packaging. The number of packages has also grown, with 112 of the
current 205 git repositories in our team area having its first commit
during 2010.

Where to reach us
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Debian Multimedia Maintainers can be reached at
pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org, should you have any
questions. We have also decided to repurpose the old
debian-multimedia@lists.debian.org address for user and more general
discussion. We would like to invite everyone interested in multimedia to
join us there. Interested developers/packagers can also join us at the
first address. Some of the team members are also in the
#debian-multimedia channel on OFTC.

Regards,
Alessio Treglia on behalf of the Debian Multimedia Maintainers

[1] That site is maintained by Christian Marillat, and is known to break
current ffmpeg-based applications (like mplayer and vlc) in Debian
Squeeze.
[2] http://blends.alioth.debian.org/multimedia/tasks/packagelist
[3] http://blends.alioth.debian.org/multimedia/tasks
[4] svn://svn.debian.org/svn/blends/projects/multimedia/trunk/debian-multimedia/tasks
[5] http://blends.alioth.debian.org/multimedia/bugs
[6] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint=pkg-multimedia-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org