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Rivendell - broadcast automation software June 17, 2007

Posted by Tobias Scherbaum in : Gentoo , add a comment

Yesterday I came across a quite nice (read: GPL’d) broadcast automation software: Rivendell. As some people in the forums already tried Rivendell and the Wiki explains how to install Rivendell from CVS on Gentoo boxes I started to put some ebuilds together which are now in my dev-overlay. They’re currently in a very experimental state - at least I got Rivendell running with them. If you have corrections and additions mail them to me (and include the patch for your fixes as well :P).

Banshee June 17, 2007

Posted by Tobias Scherbaum in : Programmtipps , add a comment

Nachdem ich ja vor einigen Wochen noch schrieb, dass so “dicke” Anwendungen zum “Musik hören” wie zum Beispiel Amarok absolut nichts für mich sind und audacious doch völlig reicht, muss ich die Aussage nun revidieren. Gestern hatte ich mal wieder einen kurzen Blick auf Banshee geworfen und bin erstaunt was sich dort getan hat. Ich bin jedenfalls angenehm überrascht - mal schauen ob Banshee den Langzeittest gegen audacious gewinnen kann ;)

np: Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Good

Little PPC bugfixing spree … June 17, 2007

Posted by Tobias Scherbaum in : Gentoo , 7comments

Somehow I was in the mood of starting a little bugfixing spree on Friday after I got home from work. From more than 100 hundert PPC-Bugs we’re now down to less than 30. Nearly all keywording bugs are fixed for now - so we can now take a look at the “real” bugs ;) The bugfixing spree was really needed as some of the bugs were laying around already for several months, but also some of the bugs were already fixed.

A third group of bugs were - I name them - “random keywording requests”, some developers apparantly like their packages to be keyworded and/or stable for any architecture supported by Gentoo. Which makes it even harder for smaller architecture-teams like PPC to handle this and the “real” keywording requests in a reasonable timeframe. While we did those random keywording requests in the past we can’t as of now due to lack of man-power - at best we currently have a group of only about five developers regularly looking at PPC-bugs. Plus we lost our last participant in the AT-program a week ago. Thanks for the work you did for Gentoo/PPC, Nathan!