[linux-audio-dev] Plans/Roadmaps for 2005?

[Stefan Westerfeld]

   Hi!

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 03:40:33PM +0100, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> i'm writing this email, because i'm interested in what plans the
> different linux audio developers have for the year 2005 Any new
> revolutionary applications planned? Major changes to some of the
> existing apps? So let us know. What are your roadmaps for 2005? What are
> you guys up to?

Well, funnily enough, somewhere on my TODO list is discussing about
and writing an official Roadmap document for BEAST. But it will probably
take some time to get this done, so I here my inoffical 2005 plan:

beast:
 - work on the instrument support
   - support for GUS Patches (currently working on this)
   - add more synthesis networks to the distribution, provide presets
   - maybe later add soundfont support (maybe via libfluidsynth)
 - integrate more with "the rest of the linux world"
   - probably DSSI client/host support
   - fix any remaining issues with the PortAudio driver and the
	 PortAudio blocking JACK support I added
   - more (maybe native) JACK support
   - more ALSA support, to allow proper (time synchronous) midi loopback
     from/to other synths/sequencers and midi output to external devices
 - more C++ porting
 - fix what annoys musicians most about it
   - make music with BEAST to find out what this is
   - listen to musicians to see what this is
   - maybe provide ports to non-linux systems

other projects:
 - support interoperability where possible (for instance: maybe provide
   help for polypaudio to become a new de facto soundserver standard)

There is a more elaborate version of my (and Tim Janiks) TODO (my part
of the TODO starts at the line "sfidl:") at

http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/beast/TODO?rev=1.523&view=markup

but that is probably more work than for 2005 only. My plan for 2005 is
to more or less concentrate on BEAST development, as I can provide a new
place for some of my former ideas I had for aRts there.

  Cu... Stefan
-- 
Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stefan