[linux-audio-dev] why is no-one responding

janne halttunen jhalttun at pp.htv.fi
Wed Feb 12 13:17:00 UTC 2003


On 13 Feb 2003 01:38:13 +1100
Son of Zev <sonofzev at labyrinth.net.au> wrote:

> However I have been involved in the ardour lists for over 2 years. I
> have spent much time reading about potential problems and responded to
> all those that have had the courtesy to respond. I have also learnt and
> spent much time investigating problems that have nothing to do with the
> production of music.. simply to try and help developers iron out
> problems.. 

Pretty much everyone into linux audio at this point does that. 


> If you look back into archives a couple of years back alot of
> development into inclusion of MIDI sync was added to some softwares
> (especially MusE) to accomodate users like myself who depend on this
> sync to make software compatible with real studios. 
>
> BUT. In the last few weeks I have spent much time into trying to
> configure and compile ardour (the potentially greatest audio recording
> software available to us)

Heh, I've been up to the same task.  It seems to depend on fairly recent development tools, and upgrading to them all can mess things up.  But slowly working towards it.


> but all my responses after I sent an opinion
> to the string "ahem" concerning Steinberg having produced (but not
> released) versions of their commercial softwares under our much loved
> platform, have been completely ignored.. except this one.. 
> 
> My responses have not been ignorant nor lacking in information. As I
> mentioned I have spent much time learning about the Linux platform and
> contributing when I can ... 

Well, position yourself with a working ardour, and then think how much time you would spend on helping others, when all that time you could be making music :)


> My annoyance is when it was asked of me to provdie more information and
> I did .. no response came.. then when I tried to resolve it myself and
> no further response came that's when I could only put 2 & 2 together and
> see that a response I made to the string "ahem" could have been related 

Sometimes more information does ring a bell to someone, sometimes it doesn't.  That's pretty much about it from my point of view.  There are many bits in cyberspace.


janne

(or is there? ;)


> cheers
> 
> Allan 



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