just FYI that particular bug in seq24 has been fixed, and a patch has been posted in at least one location. the problem is that it has not been picked up by whoever is maintaining seq24. On 7/21/12, renato <rennabh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, I was wondering, what can we non-dev users do when our favorite > piece of FOSS software is lacking a little feature, but one that makes > the software for us of little or no use? > > I'm thinking of seq24 not working, since a year or so, with JACK > Transport - which for an app like seq24 makes it almost useless. It > really itches me and I'd like to do what's in my power to help fix it. > > I was thinking, since this would be (I think) a few hours of devs > work, couldn't I/we raise some money to pay a dev to do it? How would > I/we do it? > > In long term thinking, we could have a site where users propose a bug, > devs name a price for it, and when the money raising reaches that > quantity, the dev starts to work on it and when he fixes it he recieves > the money. Basically a mix of kickstarter and amazon's mechanical turk. > > I think this could work quite well for such bugs, which often appear in > awesome but semi-abandoned software (freewheeling and kluppe for > example come to [my] mind). I totally get that the original devs may > have lost interest and moved on in life, but being FOSS, the code is > there and maybe a few paid hours of a dev could get it working/add a > basic feature you really need. > > Thoughts? > > renato > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
