[LAU] Ardour3

[Rick Green]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Paul Davis wrote:

>  the idea is to limit the set of people "just
> trying it" to people who are ready for it to break on them and
> willing to get involved and help us fix the issue. what you're
> alluding to is to me more like a beta test. we haven't released an
> alpha yet.

   Possibly the text on ardour.org/download_full should be edited from "If 
you are an active developer of Ardour, or a beta[sic] tester..." to 
something more like Paul's stronger statement above.

...or better yet, replace it with a link to the 'getting involved' section 
of the development page, then in the 'welcome' message of the ardour-dev 
mailing list, mention the requirement to also join the ardour-commit list, 
and in that list's welcome message, finally give the link to the svn 
checkout command.

...maybe then you'll have fewer distractions from drive-by 
construction-zone gawkers, as well as lower levels of 'buzz' and 
anticipation of the pleasures to come.  It's a balancing act.  To what 
extent are the developers motivated by the public attention of that 
'buzz', balanced by the distractions of the occasional 
less-than-fully-formed bug report, and the drawn-out meta-discussions such 
as this one?

-- 
Rick Green

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