29 Jun
2011
29 Jun
'11
10:10 a.m.
On 06/29/2011 10:25 AM, Renato wrote:
Hello, I created this wiki page
http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/apps/all/dead_projects
which stems from a thread I had started about a year ago here on LAD, asking for people
to tell what software they found very valuable
but no longer maintained.
I have no prior experience with the wiki so I probably have made some
mistakes, first of all for example I'm not sure if the page is placed
in the right place. Would someone with more experience kindly point out
or even better correct these mistakes?
I've started doing that. But I'm short on time these days. I May not get
around to attend to this before the week after next.
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
Also, maybe a distinction should be made: for example,
while jack-rack
AFAIK doesn't have a dev periodically maintaining it, I think no one
would call it "dead", since it is quite usable and used;
That's why we call it "unmaintained" :)
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.
As of now there are two problems with the content of
the page:
1) Tau physical modelling is a software that was mentioned in the said
LAD thread, but I couldn't find it anywhere online. links anyone?
2) Softwerk by Paul Davis was mentioned, but then Paul chimed in and
said he had just committed to svn, however I couldn't find the svn
address... So, Paul, could you kindly provide us the svn address, to
add maybe here
http://apps.linuxaudio.org/apps/all/softwerk
or if you're no longer working on it, could we add it to the list?
Ideally this page would be a place where developers in search for a
nice project would go, so I would find it good to link to it in some
places, but I'm not sure where... probably here
http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/apps/categories/development
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.
would be a good idea, but I wasn't able to edit
the page. Then maybe
even some place more upfront like here?:
http://www.linuxaudio.org/resources
cheers
renato
Thanks for your contribution,
Cheers!
robin