> >> In general, though, sox's SF issue tracker seems to be ineffective, which > >> both impacts the quality and functionality of sox, but also discourages > >> well-intentioned people from contributing to it, as they start out > >> enthusiastic, follow what seem like the right steps, and then are ignored > >> for decades. I am one example of that. I've added log frequency axis to > >> sndfile-tools' sndfile-spectrogram and would have done the same for sox but > >> it seemed pointless after the FFTW patches being ignored for so long, making > >> me have to update them to stride code changes, until I eventually gave the > >> idea up as wasted work. > >> > >> There are contributions with patches from 2006, which may or may not be > >> useful these days. There are patch suggestions that give links to github > >> repos that have long since been deleted, but the pointless issue persists on > >> SF. > >> > >> This gives the public impression to developers is that it is abandonware or > >> only-us-not-you-ware. > >> > >> Could the project use some help, as I've been programming since I was 13 and > >> am now 60 and on a pension so I can choose what I work on, and resolving the > >> sox SF issues seems worth doing as it is an excellent tool that seems > >> neglected in that area. > > Yes. There has been a void in actual maintainership for a long time. > > Is anyone sure what the upstream actualy is? The downstream ports > > I care to follow either start at 14.4.2 and stack up their own patches > > (including random diffs floating around, or one of the github forks), > > or just gave up and chose one github repo or another. > > > > Is there anyone on this list who considers thamselves to be > > a "maintainer" of SoX? Or at least someone who even has the > > commit rights to sox.sf.net (the repo, the bugtracker)? > > Does anyone of the current users remember what SourceForge was? > > I have admin access to the SF project. Do you consider that to be the ultimate upstream of SoX code? If so, what is the relation of the SF git master to https://github.com/mansr/sox/commits/master/ ? > Unfortunately, I haven't been > able to spend much time on maintenance tasks recently. sox.sf.net says "Brought to you by: cbagwell, mansr, robs, uklauer" https://sourceforge.net/u/mansr/activity https://sourceforge.net/u/robs/activity https://sourceforge.net/u/uklauer/activity https://sourceforge.net/u/cbagwell/activity Is there anyone on these lists (cross-posting to both -devel and -users) willing to step up and maintain SoX? Jan _______________________________________________ Sox-users mailing list Sox-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sox-users
