3 Feb
2004
3 Feb
'04
6:10 p.m.
(I'm moving this to linux-audio-user where the rest of this
discussion has been held. Please direct replies there)
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 07:17:45PM +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote:
At the risk of being pedantic, what is wrong with the
sound/audio section of
freshmeat?
A good question. At first glance not much.
But I do have the following gripes, and maybe some more
I haven't thought of yet ;-)
* Somewhat lacking in categories for audio/music apps.
As far as I can tell, submitters cannot influence what categories
their app should go in.
* You have to be logged in to submit anything.
In a smaller community, I think we can relax this requirement,
especially since admins will be able to undo any malicious changes.
* No source code available to the freshmeat software. (see the FAQ.)
I plan to make all my stuff open source.
* Freshmeat will probably never do cool stuff like automatically
track releases in the audio-specific distros.
* Freshmeat rejects "trivial" submissions. I can understand the reasoning,
but I don't agree with this. http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/198/
* Freshmeat is too large and too general.
It doesn't give me warm fuzzy LAD/LAU community feelings.
* Banner ads. Fooey.
And finally...
* They don't have a logo with a cute penguin wearing headphones.
This is unforgivable.
All that said, since they export their backend RDF files,
we should be able to re-use a whole lot of stuff from
freshmeat, and/or use their xml-rpc api to forward our own
submissions to freshmeat. Not sure about the best way to do all this,
but I'm sure Steve will help ;-)
Dave's site is great because it is so low tech
imho.
Low tech is great unless you're the guy that does all the work :-)
I think for advocacy purposes and general coolness, it
would be nice
to have a
site devoted to linux _musicians_ where we can upload and compare tracks and
production methods. More of an extension of LAU...
Sure, the more the merrier.
But I don't want to lose focus. You can build that site if you want :-)
There has been talk on the consortium_p list of having linuxaudio.org
be a sort of portal for various subdomains which can be maintained
independently. So my proposal could live at something like
apps.linuxaudio.org or similar. A musician portal could either be
based on linuxmusician.com (yes, it exists, check it out!) or something
similar at e.g. musician.linuxaudio.org.
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