[Jack-Devel] stepping down

[Kenneth Fields]

can’t exist without Jack. interapplication is essential to us.
in fact, I thought I remember a jack-video project about a decade ago.
that’s what I need now in addition to jack audio.

Ken

> On Jan 30, 2016, at 3:10 PM, tom at trellis.ch wrote:
> 
> 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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