30 Jun
2011
30 Jun
'11
10:09 a.m.
Hi, thanks to Holger and Robin for the replies
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:10:51 +0200
Robin Gareus <robin(a)linuxaudio.org> wrote:
So I'll be deleting the page I created and tagging apps unmaintained
instead... but are you suggesting that a page under /wiki would still
be a good idea? Maybe containing some more detailed explanations than
the "unmaintained" page, like "Kluppe is great but it would greatly
benefit from basic midi support"?
Such a thing could potentially get complicated: shouldn't bugs and
feature requests not pertain the wiki, but the project's pages/authors?
Anyhow, I think the unmaintained page is allready a good resource, I
just think it should be more advertised.
As a more general question to the community, what do you think about
setting up a system where users can donate money for a certain future
to be added to a software (and the devs that do the work get the money)?
The ardour project uses this thing right?
It would be great if such a system could be implemented in a central
place like linuxaudio.org, that way (and with this we get [almost] back
on topic) one could donate money for a dead/unmaintained project to be
resurrected, whereas as it is now I wouldn't know where to donate
money to have say spiral synth modular add a certain future. I think it
would be a nice thing for the community.
What are the pros and cons of such a system?
cheers
renato
The generic way to do this it to simply add the tag
"unmaintained" to
each project, then they'll automatically end up at
http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/apps/categories/unmaintained
Just add {{OTHER TAGS unmaintained}} to the page of the app e.g.
http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/apps/all/rezound
thanks for pointing this out, didn't know about that page. This is what
I'll do then
I'm
pretty
sure that if in the future it wouldn't compile anymore due for
example to some gtk libraries not backwards compatible, someone
would pretty fast come up with a patch. So, does it belong to the
list? Or should we just change the name to "abandoned projects",
and thus even examples like jack-rack would fit in?
For non-generic info, create a wiki page. f.i.
http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/projects_that_need_loving
link to the app in question (e.g. [[:apps:all:rezound]]) - and add
detailed info there.
The :apps:all:* name-space at http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/apps/all/*
should only contain applications and no custom-pages.
[...]
The "development" tag is intended for libraries - handy for
developers.
I'm in touch with Emanuel Rumpf off-list to update the wiki, re-style
it and clean out the tag mess.. it's on the top of my ToDo list for
July/August.