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ScottL_paultag, and holstein , i did something slightly like you were talking about perhaps01:36
ScottL_it was for the RPM Challenge and then we did it outside of that01:37
ScottL_http://blindchaos.rpmchallenge.com/01:37
ScottL_any person who wanted to join could submit music and it was all mixed together at the end01:37
ScottL_no one knew what the other was doing however, very interesting01:37
ScottL_outside of the rpm challenge we did a round robin type of thing, a serial process01:38
ScottL_one person recorded fifteen minutes and sent that to the next on the list,01:38
ScottL_this person recorded fifteen minutes using the previous music to "guide" him01:38
ScottL_this person only took his music and forwarded this, etc, etc01:38
ScottL_http://soundcloud.com/jazzs3quence/the-room-is-full-of-stars-or-the-last-time-ill-have-to-be-ricky-blanco-for-anybody01:39
ScottL_all good fun :)01:40
holsteinScottL_: cool01:40
ScottL_man, i don't think i've ever seen this much discussion on the -devel mailing list, on the wiki, and on the irc channel before :)01:44
ScottL_it's pretty darn awesome!01:44
holsteininterest :)01:44
holsteinScottL_: let me know if theres another one of those 01:44
holsteinthats public01:44
holsteinthat sounds fun 01:45
* persia wonders if it anyone would be interested in writing a bzr-sex plugin, so that session-exchange diffs could be tracked in bzr in LP.02:02
persiahttp://murraysaul.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/how-to-collaborate-on-line-part-i/ has some links02:03
ScottL_one would most likely admit that the term "bzr-sex plugin" is slightly startling with it's loaded connotations ;)02:33
ScottL_persia, earlier you mentioned that in the STRUCTURE file the -generating and -recording packages should depend on audio rather than base02:35
ScottL_this seems a little confusing to me, wouldn't the -audio metapackage not be needed anymore02:35
ScottL_and i had been meaning to ask you as well, do we just leave the -audio meta alone for now?02:36
ScottL_i was going to suggest removing it, but it appears that you want it to be a dependency 02:36
ScottL_.02:36
ScottL_lastly, how soon can i start updating the seeds?02:36
ScottL_.02:37
ScottL_holstein, i've participated in the rpm challenge for the past two years, not only doing my own thing but blind chaos also02:37
ScottL_you can certainly join it too, it will be in february02:37
persiaScottL_, My suggestion was that common audio stuff belonged in an audio seed.  I agree that there's no reason to make a task or metapackage from that seed.  On the other hand, it's a lot easier to have a common seed for the common stuff than to try to manually maintain commonality between other seeds.03:06
persiaSeed changes can happen now, and will take effect as tasks within a day or so.  Changes to the metapackages require a rebuild.03:07
persiaOh, and "sex" is a fairly old abbreviation from lau@ for Ardour Session Exchange03:07
ScottL_lol, i knew about the session exchange acronym, but didn't make the correlation at first :P03:09
ScottL_persia, sorry if i'm being dense, then we will have a metapackage for -base, -generating, and -recording03:11
ScottL_in -generating and -recording we will define tasks03:11
ScottL_-base will NOT define a task03:11
persiaTwo things.  Firstly, I suggest not calling anything "base" in the ubuntustudio seed collection.  The name is too low-level, and likely to have a future conflict.03:12
persiaWe're really talking about common audio apps between -generating and -recording.03:12
ScottL_but you mentioned audio before, can we still use the -audio metapackage then?03:12
ScottL_use -audio for common package?03:12
persiaSecondly, I can't see any reason to have a  metapackage or task for the common stuff.  The relationship between seeds and tasks and metapacakges is not one-to-one-to-one.03:13
persiaMy suggestion was to have a common seed, named "audio", which generated no metapackage or task.03:13
ScottL_oh, oh, oh, i'm confusing the seeds with metapackages03:13
persiaAnd to use STRUCTURE to ensure that the packages listed in this seed would be part of the metapackages and tasks associated with -generating and -recording.03:13
persiaRight.  One can turn a seed into a metapackage, but one doesn't need to do so.  Seed relationships are used to create lists of packages which then can be used for a metapackage.03:14
persiaOne can also turn a seed into a task: the decision to do so is separate from the decision to create a metapackage, but roughly the same model applies for each of tasks or metapackages.03:15
paultagScottL_, hummm03:17
paultagScottL_, totally worth some thought, I think03:17
ScottL_just to be explicit, are you suggesting that the audio seed (which historically has been used to create the metapackage ubuntustudio-audio) be used for the common audio apps03:17
ScottL_but it will not create a metapackage anymore? persia03:18
persiaOh, I forgot about the current use of that seed.03:18
persiaYeah, we probably want to use something like "audio-common" so that we can provide a transition package for upgraders who have the "ubuntustudio-audio" metapackage installed.03:19
ScottL_doh, i didn't think about upgrading, *shakes head* man, planning all this is involved03:19
persiaYep.03:20
ScottL_okay, all new seeds to be created, and we will want to remove ubuntustudio-audio task from cwatson's list 03:20
ScottL_and i'm presuming we can just leave the -audio seed for now in the bzr code?03:21
persiaUm, maybe.03:21
* persia drafts a reference note03:22
persiaScottL_, http://typewith.me/CpXbqtFUq603:29
ScottL_hey, that's cool persia, i'm watching you type :)03:30
persiaScottL_, So, based on what I've started in the Natty section, do you see what I mean now?03:33
persiaholstein, Thoughts?03:40
persia(and you're both encouraged to add more in the Natty section: I'm not sure i have a full grip on everything that belongs there)03:41
* holstein just catching up on what you have there03:42
holsteinill have to digest that a bit03:47
persiaNo worries.  The main thing is that I thought we'd do better at figuring out how to structure the tasks and metapackages with shared text than just IRC discussion :)03:48
holsteinyeah03:48
holsteini like etherpad03:48
holsteinhandy 03:48
ScottL_sorry, wife got home and kids descended upon her (and therefore on me as well)03:52
ScottL_looking at typewithme03:52
ScottL_i noticed that "supported" is empty and you say that it must be last, is this a special file persia?04:00
ScottL_i think i have a better understanding of the transition package also after reading that04:01
persiaIt is a special file.  There's still gaps in the full impementation, but it ideally represents the set of stuff not otherwise seeded for which we declare support.04:02
persiaThe current UIs are unable to represent support except for a crude approximation based on "main" and "universe".04:02
persiahttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/SeedManagement has more discussion04:02
ScottL_eh, that made me think about doctormo and his wizardpen package, maybe paultag can help if quadrispro is going to be away for a while ;)04:03
ScottL_and i tried to poke JFo today about getting the -lowlatency kernel in the archives, this i'm really nervous about making sure it happens04:04
ScottL_unfortunately, this would the be second time i've tried to contact JFo about support for abogani and the kernel for natty and not received a response, hopefully just coincidental and correlation :P04:05
persiaLet's concentrate on the seed collection first :)04:05
ScottL_i don't want to press too much into the wizardpen package or the kernel support, but i do want to keep pushing it so it doesn't loose momentum, kinda like the website stuff04:10
persiaSure :)04:10
ScottL_which by the way, persia and jussi, i responded to the email about the latest website mockup and asked if he could use the proper blue and come up with a dark theme as well04:10
persiaRight.04:11
* ScottL_ is unsure if either of you follow all the mail on the list04:11
paultagScottL_, where do you need me?04:11
ScottL_i'm not strictly sure we do ;) but doctormo has been working on a package for wizardpen support04:12
ScottL_he's been in contact with quadrispro, but i am unsure to which extent04:12
paultagAhha04:13
ScottL_we, ubuntu studio, would like to support doctormo's efforts and wizardpen driver04:13
paultagWell doctormo and I are great friends04:13
ScottL_but he needs it packaged04:13
paultagwe meet up in person regularly04:13
paultagAh, rad. I can help him out04:13
ScottL_outstanding!04:13
paultagI'll let him know I'm here to help :)04:13
ScottL_capital04:13
ScottL_i'm not sure he explicitly understand that the package needs to be, well, umm...packaged and accepted into the archives before it can be included on the ubuntu studio iso04:14
paultagyeah, he has a hard time understanding procedure04:14
paultagScottL_, is it something we need for N cycle?04:15
ScottL_lol, i've read some of his comments on the #ubuntu-community-team channel, he's quite disparaging sometimes :P04:15
paultagyeah, he really04:15
paultaghe really is *04:15
paultagHe's torn into me ( I'm on the Ubuntu LoCo Council ) on more then one instance04:15
ScottL_paultag, it would be nice to get it by natty, yes - if possible, not critical but is preferred though04:16
paultagOK -- ScottL_, I'm just worried about Debian freeze -- might have to get it into the Ubuntu repos then move it upstream after they release squeeze04:16
ScottL_i think it's good though that someone shake things up from time to time, but he seems to take it personally though04:16
paultag+1 ScottL_. He hates authority04:16
ScottL_i admire his passion though04:16
paultagHe really is an awesome guy04:17
=== ScottL_ is now known as ScottL
ScottLhe's one of the people that i would like to meet at an UDS one day actually, i've read many of this thoughtful blogs and i have a feeling that i already know him :P04:18
paultagScottL, yeah, he has been to almost every UDS in the past04:18
paultagScottL, he will miss this one, I think ( not sure, though )04:18
persiaHe'll be there.04:19
ScottLi had thought that i might make this one, but, alas, i shall not04:19
paultagah, thanks persia :)04:19
ScottLbut i have high hopes for the next one04:19
paultagpersia, what are the steps for getting a new package into Ubuntu for the next cycle?04:19
paultagpersia, just because deb is in freeze04:19
persiaGet two members of ~ubuntu-dev to agree it ought be uploaded and one of them to upload it.04:21
paultagah that's not too bad04:21
paultagcool, thanks persia 04:21
persiaSimilar to procedure from Debian, except that packages in Debian only need one member of ~ubuntu-dev because we trust debian as we'd trust ourselves.04:22
paultagYup. Sounds right :)04:22
persiaIt's usually fairly trivial: the only reason it's more complicated than "just upload it" is because we all make mistakes, so we try to do peer review.04:22
paultagfor sure, for sure04:23
paultaggood thing I have lots of MOTU friends :)04:23
persiaScottL, So, Are there more questions about seeds/tasks/metapackages now?  Do you still need me to be paying close attention to etherpad and the channel?04:23
paultagI should really try for MOTU at some point :/04:23
* persia takes silence as "no"04:30
* persia hasn't saved the etherpad: if the contents are interesting to someone for posterity, they may want to grab a local copy04:31
paultagpersia, hate to keep pinging you ( I feel like I'm going to wear you thin after a while ). How hard is it to get accepted as a MOTU? I was thinking of just getting my DM upstream and then applying for MOTU after, but I feel like I won't apply for DM for a solid year or so from now at the least04:35
persiaBecoming a MOTU can be trivially easy or fiendishly difficult, depending on your personality, communication skills, technical skills, preexisting work in Ubuntu, etc.04:36
paultagheh, good answer :/04:36
persiaI can't speak for anyone else, but my basic criteria when reviewing folk are as follows: 1) I've seen them interacting closely with other MOTU on work on unseeded packages, and with a QA attitude, 2) They have a reasonable number of credited uploads, some of which required some significant technical work on their own (rather than just patch management)04:37
paultagpersia, does Debian credit count to Ubuntu credit?04:38
persia3) There appears to be a commitment to archive quality and similar MOTU goals, and 4) they are joining MOTU as a pointless hurdle to their continued work on Ubuntu rather than because that is a goal in it's own right.04:38
paultagmmm. Thanks persia. I think I'll wait another year or so. I've been around for 3, no sense in rushing things.04:39
persiaIt's not that formal.  Work in Debian can count towards some of my criteria, and I have no idea what criteria others use, or whether work in Debian counts.  Work solely in Debian is not typically sufficient on social grounds (although it may meet technical requirements)04:39
persiaIf you want to work with the Studio team, I'd recommend against MOTU actually.04:39
paultagmmhum04:39
paultagpersia, Oh?04:39
persiaNothing done on Studio counts for MOTU in my book (not unseeded packages)04:39
persiaThat said, there's no reason not to try to become an Ubuntu Studio developer, which grants upload to everything seeded in Studio (except core stuff or stuff inherited from Desktop)04:40
paultagHumm, cool.04:40
persiaAgain, I can't speak for anyone else, but my criteria for that are close to my MOTU criteria, except I'm looking at integration with and support from the Studio team rather than the MOTU team, and work on Studio packages rather than unseeded packages.04:41
paultagsounds quite sane to me04:41
paultagthanks persia :)04:42
persiaNo problems.  We can always use more developers, and more uploaders, and anything I can do to make you more comfortable applying to be the right sort of developer hastens the process.04:43
persia(as I suspect it would be disappointing to get turned down for MOTU because all your work was only on Studio.04:43
paultagheh, I don't mind about that04:43
ScottLpersia, i do not think you need pay attention to the channel or etherpad currently, i think the path is pretty well defined although i expect some things to arise during the process04:43
paultagI really don't want to be on the MOTU muchly persia, really just so I can keep my stuff in sync with Debian04:44
paultagpersia, sounds great. I'll just plug away on routine work, but run it through the channels. After I feel like my changes go through with minor to no issues, I'll apply :)04:44
persiaScottL, Sure.  I'm always happy to answer questions: just wanted to make sure you didn't feel we were still in the middle of a discussion before pushing that stuff off my current active stack.04:44
persiapaultag, strive for s/minor to// :)04:45
paultag:)04:45
paultagI'll make sure they're clean ;)04:45
scott-worksomeone should adjust the topic now that maverick is released and natty is in development14:09
scott-workif someone would tell me how I would be happy to do it :)14:09
* persia investigates the access list14:09
persiajussi, Could you sort stuff?  ubuntustudio-dev looks particilarly odd.14:10
persiascott-work, At least this channel is +t (you can check with /mode), so you should be able to use "/topic" to confirm the topic and "/topic foo" to set the topic to "foo".14:11
scott-workpersia: what part of ubuntustudio-dev looks odd?14:12
persiascott-work, The ChanServ access list14:12
scott-workoh, nothing i know about then14:12
persiaIt's about permissions for this channel.  Nothing you need to worry about short-term.14:13
jussi[16:43:44] [ChanServ] Flags +votiA were set on persia in #ubuntustudio-devel.14:43
* persia blinks at -dev vs. -devel and slaps forehead14:44
persiaScottL, Try changing the topic again.14:53
scott-workpersia: i hadn't actually tried yet, work is commanding most of my attention at the moment15:01
persiaOK.  Let's see if what I did worked, just to make sure you can change in the future.15:02
=== scott-work changed the topic of #ubuntustudio-devel to: [Ubuntu Studio Development Channel | Ubuntu Studio code: https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntustudio | Maverick Meerkat released, Natty Narwhal development under way. | This Channel is logged |]
=== scott-work changed the topic of #ubuntustudio-devel to: Ubuntu Studio Development Channel | Ubuntu Studio code: https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntustudio | Maverick Meerkat released, Natty Narwhal development under way. | This Channel is logged |
* scott-work didn't like the double brackets15:16
persiaExcellent.  Please complain if there are /topic fights, and it can be locked again15:21
jussiscott-work: please group this nick with your main nick.15:23
jussi/msg nickserv group 15:23
jussifor help15:23
jussi/msg nickserv help group 15:23
scott-workjussi: i will do that15:24
jussiscott-work: when you have Ill add you to the access list here15:25
scott-workjussi: i believe i just did it15:25
scott-work-NickServ- Nick scott-work is now registered to your account.15:25
jussi[17:26:11] [ChanServ] Flags +votiA were set on ScottL_ in #ubuntustudio-devel.15:26
scott-workjussi: was that suppossed to be ScottL_ ?  with the underscore?15:42
jussiscott-work: your account name is ScottL_15:43
persiaYou may be able to convince NickServ to change your account name, but that may require some fiddling.15:49
scott-workoh, i dont' really care, just surprised but i think i know what i did15:50
scott-worki think ScottL is ScottL and i registered scott-work as ScottL_15:50
persiaYou might want to combine them at some point.15:51
scott-workhow complicated is that? and will this grossly affect what jussi did?15:57
persiaChanServ ought cope.15:58
paultagyeah, if you nick to ScottL and ident, then /ns group scottl_ it should work OK16:18
paultagscott-work / scottl_ was registered 52 minutes ago, so you can always ungroup and regroup, but chanserv would drop the flags16:18
scott-workthanks paultag, going to try something also18:07
scott-workabogani: the realtime kernel wiki is filling up nicely, the matrix is getting quite full :)18:11
scott-workfor those interested, the october team report has been started https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/TeamReports18:36
scott-workjussi or persia: do you have any experience with Ng?  I am trying to contact him about getting access to the ubuntustudio.org website (per cory) and am waiting a repsonse from him, should i expect to wait long perhaps?18:52
jussi#canonical-sysadmin is your best bet, as well as email'18:53
scott-workthanks jussi, i'll try those as well18:56
jussioh and scott-work, be patient ;)19:00
scott-workjussi: right, i had already pinged Ng about it, I'll let it wait until the end of the day and then i'll send an email to rt@ubuntu.com then19:01
jussiscott-work: send the email now, then they have it in the tracker. then ping them tomorrow.19:02
scott-workjussi: roger that19:02
scott-workpaultag:  have you talked to doctormo about the wizardpen driver yet?20:12
scott-worki'm curious to how he responds about getting the package into the archives20:16
paultagscott-work, yeah, I did -- he's not pung me back21:57
paultagscott-work, I'll give him another poke21:58
scott-workLOL, you poked him all right22:02
paultagheh22:03
paultagscott-work, What do you think?22:03
scott-workpaultag: i don't know at this point, my brain is too fried from work and other studio priorities :/22:04
paultagNo worries, thanks scott-work 22:04
scott-workmaybe persia has a suggestion - doctormo says that his wizardpen driver doesn't work in maverick (only in lucid) because of the xorg update, he needs programmers and someone to test22:05
scott-worki'd be happy to buy a tablet to test if someone volunteered to work on the code22:05
paultagAh22:05
paultagscott-work, doc-mo says there might be a driver that translates wizardpen to wacom22:05
paultagand that would be awesome ( and stable, I think )22:06
scott-workoh, ah...yes, i was hoping we could use his package in the interim between when something gets stable and finally included in the kernel22:07
scott-workbut thank you, paultag, for looking into it though22:10
paultagscott-work, of course22:10
paultagI'm here to help, it would be shady for me to turn down such a clear-cut task with someone I already know :)22:10
scott-workwell, i'm left sad because it seems like we will not be able to make this happen :(22:30
scott-workbut it is what it is22:30
scott-workpaultag: i saw you were thinking about doing something for the FCS at the UDS about US22:38
scott-workpaultag: what sort of thing were you thinking about doing?22:38
paultagscott-work, I saw on the website mockup that there was a music player for user generated content22:38
paultagscott-work, if there is going to be a player, there better be a place to put that stuff ;)22:38
scott-workyes :)22:39
paultagscott-work, so I was thinking of mocking up something simple, then giving it over to the guys doing the ubuntun free culture stuff22:39
scott-workwhen detrate` was working on a new website based on wordpress he felt extremely confident about putting that in22:39
paultagand eventually if it goes well, just have a studio tag or something. Not too clue yet22:39
paultagawesome :)22:39
scott-workpaultag: that sounds extremely cool :)22:40
paultagscott-work, I was going to get it mocked up and demo-able22:40
paultagscott-work, then present it for revisions etc, don't worry I am not a loose cannon :)22:40
scott-workoh no, wasn't worried about that, was curious and enthusiastic about what i read :)22:40
paultagscott-work, cool :)22:41
paultagscott-work, I did something similar with documents a while ago. I think I might be able to kinda "merge" the two22:41
scott-workpaultag: here's a video i did with blender, just about four hours work, done with all ubuntu studio - http://vimeo.com/1403495822:41
paultagkickass!22:41
paultagplaying now :)22:42
scott-workwait till the other one of me shows up ;)22:42
paultagOh, I'm there :)22:42
scott-workthey're both first takes, just improvising, the whole purpose was to green screen and composite the other "me" into the video22:42
paultagfor sure22:42
paultagscott-work, Oh, and something I was thinking about -- posting half made "sketches", and then letting people take them down and post them back with another track 22:43
scott-workthat's similar to what i had thought before22:43
paultagYeah, I think we were talking about this :)22:43
paultagscott-work, cute kid :)22:43
scott-workthis is different, from a long time ago - my idea was more of a "riff bank" where you post something when you can't work it further and let other people see what they can do22:44
scott-workthanks22:44
scott-workmaybe they post it back with some changes, maybe they finish a song with it22:44
scott-workpaultag: this could work with whole songs, maybe someone writes good riffs but doesn't do vocals or leads22:45
scott-worksomeone could surf through songs, find one that strikes them, and then add vocals or lead to it22:46

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