[LAD] What's with Nedko Arnaudov?

[Hanspeter Portner]

On 06.12.2017 15:28, David Runge wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> is anyone maybe in close contact with Nedko Arnaudov?
> I've had trouble piecing together the upstream for a2jmidid [1], when
> rebuilding the package for Arch Linux and tried contacting him.
> 
> There doesn't seem to be any activity in any of his repositories on
> github [2] in recent years (not a good sign).
> 
> Especially in the case of a2jmidid, everything I hear from people when
> asking them is "this was meant as a quick fix and not to stay around
> long"... well, it's 2017 and it has stayed around long.
> Additionally, it is dependency to some things currently in use, such as
> cadence, etc.

Its functionality has been integrated into JACK 1 a while back, so is
superfluous for users of the latter. Nothing should thus have a hard
dependency on it, as the user may well be running JACK 1.

> Nedko also worked on ladish [3], afaics, which is still dependant on the
> - long outdated/dead - flowcanvas [4].
> I don't see any activity there either (at least not in the past four
> years). Writing "the site is down" [5] doesn't make me believe that that
> project is not dead, either.
> 
> This actively keeps programs such as cadence to be integrated into the
> [community] repository in Arch, as I will not add flowcanvas back and if
> upstream for a2jmidid deteroriates even more, it will be removed from
> the main repositories eventually!
> 
> It would be great, if someone could shed some light on this.
> 
> Best,
> David
> 
> 
> [1] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/a2jmidid&id=43147b417cb82d3e0308f94188b5811eb7987a2a
> [2] https://github.com/nedko
> [3] https://github.com/LADI/ladish
> [4] https://drobilla.net/software/flowcanvas
> [5] http://ladish.org/