On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 19:26 -0700, Ken Restivo wrote: > I've gotten the impression from reading Dave's comments on IRC over the > past few years that he really doesn't want to make releases at all, or > to have users, even. Ingen/Patchage seems more to me like a personal > fun project than a user-friendly "product" and packaging it up for > people to install via RPM's or DEB's. Well, making releases is no fun. Especially not if you are a perfectionist and always find issues that you don't want to push on users. There have been many deep changes, entire rewrites, each pushing Ingen away from a releasable state for a while. Add to that the huge time cost for working on Ardour MIDI and LV2. I can tell you from work on the GUI that Dave does care about users other than himself. > Perhaps someone would like to create a "fork" (I > use that word with great caution, but I don't want to use euphemisms > either), of Ingen/Patchage, via a Git repository available online, > where people can create patches to make the thing more packageable and > do testing on it and bugfixes and such, then of course Dave can pick > and choose what changes/patches he'd want to include in his SVN > branch. > > I'd willing to host such a repo, if it would be helpful. Ingen/Patchage > is very cool software with a great UI, and shows lots of promise. But > for Ingen to be more widely used it'd need a maintainer (or group of > maintainers) who wants it to be widely used and has the time/interest > to do the work required to make it that way (i.e. making releases, > dealing with distro maintainers, keeping up the documentation, etc.). A fork is not a good approach. Having a release manager and packagers and people who can do some user support to take all that off Dave's shoulders would be great, I think. Branch yes, fork no. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
