[linux-audio-dev] Evolutionary Development, was: [ANN] First public release of Lindrum v 0.5.1

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:35:06AM +0100, Robert Jonsson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > I looked into hydrogen code. To learn. I looked into lot of little projects
> > code. Dead projects. To learn. And IMHO they're not useless. Maybe my
> > project will be dead at the end of the year. But then i made my experience
> > and still can join hydrogen or other projects.
> >
> 
> I agree with you and I don't think that you, or anybody else spend their times 
> badly if they start new projects, on the contrary, the more the merrier! :)
> 
> The main requirement when you are about to create something is motivation. If 
> you don't have that and start poking at something you will sooner or later 
> run out of steam, unless you have an iron will. 
> This might be the case if someone tells you which project project to start on, 
> it'll work for a while, but then it's quite probable that you would lose 
> interest.

I'm not a developer, yet, but I'm starting to write some small things
using ecasound's control interface from python. As part of learning
ecasound I'm reading the ecasound-list archives. I came across this
quote from Kai recently:

"... advice for free-sw developers: don't do anything that is not fun!"

http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecasound/ecasound-list/2001/01/0035.html


-Eric Rz.