[Fedora-music-list] Fedora 21 and beyond

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On 01/18/2014 07:15 AM, Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
>> On 2014-01-18 05:21, Brendan Jones wrote:
>
>>>  This hasn't happened. I'm too busy to blog, promote, berate the
>>>  goodness of the Jam etc. Maybe someone else is. Maybe we are not
>>>  promoting ourselves enough? I don't know. Maybe we are being lazy.

Well, there are several other options out there now. There used to be 
more audio/music/sound users in the (RedHat first, then) Fedora land a 
while back. My guess is that many migrated away (many reasons), and once 
in a different distribution it would be next to impossible to bring them 
back.

How to attract new users? I don't know. What worked for me when Planet 
CCRMA started was just word of mouth, that is, happy users telling 
others it was working for them. I don't see many posts that mention 
Fedora when somebody asks in the lau/lad lists (Brendan is an exception, 
of course)...

[MUNCH]
> What I would like to see is that I could do something like:
>
> # sudo yum groupinstall "Fedora Jam"
>
> to install a nice selection of must-have music production software, like
> what is now in the Fedora Jam spin, after installing the Fedora version
> of my choice.

That would be very useful. I used to do something like that in my Planet 
CCRMA repository but I used a meta package (so, installing 
planetccrma-apps would bring in all the goodies, at least the ones I 
deemed "important"). A group (or groups) would be the right way to do it.

Anyway, as usual, kudos to Brendan and the others that put so much 
effort in the spin. Don't get discouraged!
-- Fernando

[*] BTW, a very long time ago (Fedora 3 & 4) I did create a set of 
Planet CCRMA installer disks which included all of Fedora and the most 
important audio and music packages (it even installed and booted the rt 
patched kernel!). It was something very similar to a spin, but it was 
not official and was outside of the Fedora world. I admit that I did not 
advertise its existence a lot, but it did not prove to be popular and I 
stopped after those two releases - it was a LOT of work...