[Jack-Devel] JACK1's Future?

Hi, Back in January/February at the start of this year, Paul announced that he would be stepping down, and he requested that someone would stand for being the new maintainer. As far as I know, this didn't happen, up until Filipe Coelho(?) offered to maintain JACK1. After speaking with Paul around March, he said that once Ardour 5.0 was released he would do the final release of JACK1 and then hand over maintainership. There are a few pull requests on the GitHub, some of which are critical to the core functionality of JACK1, like the patch for OSX which begins to modernise JACK1's usages of the CoreAudio APIs (while still maintaining backward compatibility). I'd like to help the JACK community in getting OSX support up-to-scratch. There is a promising project called CaptainJack (https://github.com/Qix-/CaptainJack) which aims to be a modern replacement for JackOSX, which is a vital part of the JACK ecosystem within OSX. While it is just a start, it shows there is at least some interest. My question to the community is: Should an effort be put in to revive JACK1? And to Paul; I know it's only been a little over a month since 5.0 was released, but is it possible you could do this 'final release' of JACK1 soon so we can get the ball rolling again, or at least give some sort of time-frame on when this can be achieved. I personally think there should be an effort, the main issue at this time is how the clients are sorted, and there is a patch for this. I would be willing to step forward to fix all the issues related to OSX, and reattempt integration of Fons' topological sort patch. In addition to this, JACK1 is a good code-base, albeit slightly outdated, which makes a great reference implementation for JACK3. -- Josh