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Date:      Wed, 20 Feb 2019 13:31:11 +0100
From:      Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: drop multimedia@ maintainership on some ports
Message-ID:  <o976-d4kw-wny@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20190220113842.neue3nmigxfcqul3@ivaldir.net>

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Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I am planning to drop maintainership of some ports actually maintained by
> multimedia@ to ports@ in order to give a chance to anyone to jump on it and
> maintain them directly if needed.

Hmm, I had the opposite reaction from another portmgr@ peer.

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-head/2018-October/189060.html

> The reasoning is that things that are not part of I would say the core
> multimedia components (libraries mainly) then those are badly maintained by
> multimedia@
>
> In the list of thing I want to release:
> - multimedia/shotcut
> - audio/nuvolaplayer
> - multimedia/dvdstyler
> - multimedia/subtitleeditor
> - multimedia/vid.stab
> - multimedia/webvfx-qt5
> - www/nuvolaplayer*
> - x11-toolkits/diorite
>
> What do you think?

A lot more can be kicked out but the following are no-brainer:

- x11/xnee (no more multimedia-related than script(1) with -r/-p)
- x11-toolkits/diorite (widget for audio/nuvolaplayer)



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