[Jack-Devel] stepping down

[tom at trellis.ch]

Hi,
i find it a bit sad that anyone seems to say things like "JACK is dead"
easily--- There is no alternative to it IMHO
Please, JACK lovers, speak out!


On Sat, January 30, 2016 23:30, Markus Seeber wrote:
> On 01/30/2016 07:09 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
>
>
>>
>> The website doesn't change much. The "Applications" page already has
>> its own maintainer (though it also doesn't change much). I think you
>> already have push access on github, so ... great.
>>
>>
>
> The lack of change and improvement on the website...
> Well, I'll take the blame on me for that.
>
>
> In the past, I had a vision but my motivation to support the website
> kind of drowned due to various reasons. Some are similar observations like
> Paul's, some are related to the complicated situation JACK (as an
> API AND it's implementations) is in and there is also that damn thing
> called "life" that keeps happening to me, very distracting.
>
> Basically, I realised, that JACK is dead, maybe not yet the software,
> but as a project and that is frustrating. The more I research about JACK
> the more tired and sad I get, especially the inevitable aging of the
> software and so on... the usual stuff that software developers have to
> deal with. (see attachment for a little smile)
>
> That may sound very negative (because I am currently very negative about
> that) and I am not willing to contribute to JACK (1/2/API tools/homepage
> and in general) anymore unless someone can provide a positive and
> realistic vision for the project that is beyond milking the dead cow for
> another 4 or 5 years.
>
> I can check and merge pull requests, communicate and provide help
> regarding the homepage if someone want's to take over but I won't put
> significant effort in a website of which I have the feeling nobody cares
> about and represents a dead project.
>
> Well, enough rant and with the disclaimer that this is just from a
> personal and very limited perspective on things.
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