|--==> Junichi Uekawa writes:

  JU> http://demudi.alioth.debian.org/browser/ on
  JU> http://demudi.agnula.org/wiki/DevelopRepository was a dead link,
  JU> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/demudi, on the other hand, seems to work
  JU> better.

  JU> Looking into the repository, I'd need a method to obtain upstream
  JU> tarballs. I am assuming debian/watch files are enough to obtain them.

The demudi  repository on svn.debian.org is  quite outdated.. Anyway I
usually  import  source packages  with svn-inject   along with the  -o
option, so that we don't keep the whole upstream into SVN. As you say,
working watch files are enough to get the tarball.

  >>My original plan   when I've applied  for the  Alioth  project was  to
  >>create a working area for maintaining packages in the multimedia area.
  >>This  is simpler than spawning a  new project for every package, which
  >>are often very simple. That's why I  wanted to name the Alioth project
  >>as  "debian-multimedia", I didn't want to  put the stress on A/DeMuDi,
  >>but the length of the name exceeded the limits :/
  >>
  >>Now we could consider the idea again.. what do you think?

  JU> I should think quite a few people will be interested in doing the
  JU> uploading part, I could do for a starters, and others can join in
  JU> later. We should probably have an IRC channel for demudi so that we
  JU> don't try to tred on each other's toes, and a mailing list so that
  JU> requested uploads can be tracked. We can probably use
  JU> debian-multimedia <at> l.d.o for the mailing list, do you have a IRC channel?

Yes, that mailing list  is  quite silent and  needs  a bit of  revamp!
Maybe  we could forward the  commits to it? BTW  I always dreamt about
forming a:

Debian Multimedia Team <debian-multimedia <at> lists.debian.org>

which  would be the  Maintainer of  all (or  most  of) the  multimedia
packages in Debian,  and care about  quality assurance. Bug reports to
shall be reported to the lists and  developers who directly care about
the package  listed  in the Uploaders  field, like   what happens with
debian-boot <at> lists.debian.org does for the d-i packages.

We have    a  registered #demudi  channel   on FreeNode,    but not  a
#debian-multimedia AFAIK, I think someone should register it..

The #demudi channel is listed in the CIA bot too.

Cheers,

Free