[linux-audio-dev] Disappointing LA community ?

[Dubphil]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:25:40PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> 
> I don't think, that this is the reason. There are several other
> reasons, the most important one is: The announcement asking for help
> was just some days ago, and generally no new project starts in just a
> couple of days, especially not at that time of the year. 
> 
> Getting developers to join a project is one of the hardest things to
> do in the Free Software world and it takes a lot of time. Just think
> about Ardour: For a long time this was mainly the project of Paul
> alone, IIRC. He pushed things forward and over the *years* has found a
> good amount of co-developers.  And Ardour is of interest to many more
> people than a configuration tool for a piece of hardware, that not
> many people own or will buy, because - let's face it - it's expensive. 
> 
> I'm currently struggling with getting support for a strange kind of
> webcam into Pd, and as I'm currently the only one using such a beast,
> I'm on my own for now. That's the way it is, patience is a virtue,
> time is limited etc. etc. I don't blame anyone, and in my experience
> there will always come support for something sooner or later.
>

This explanation sounds more serious for me, but I'm not a C++ coder and
i couldn't surely manage this project myself for the beginning :(

Nevertheless, good look with your webcam :)


Philippe