25 Jul
2005
25 Jul
'05
12:19 a.m.
Jono Bacon wrote:
This moves me onto another point, and I would love to
hear your
thoughts on this. I have heard a few loose comments around different
parts of the net that Ardour is not quite the same as other Open
Source projects. I have heard that development occurs between a fairly
limited set of developers, and only a few developers drive the
direction of development. I also read somewhere that the testing team
is restricted to a specific group of people and that the author may
even charge for accessing the development version in the future. Is
any of this true? How have you found the development of Ardour to be?
I have not really looked into it, so these points I have heard may be
rubbish, but I would love to hear your thoughts.
I've been an on-again/off-again lightweight tester for a while, but I'll
try to address those concerns.
I don't believe "restrictive" is the right term. CVS write access is of
limited to the core development and testing crews, and direct download
from CVS by a normal user requires Paul's permission. For those who
don't want/need immediate CVS access, a nightly CVS snapshot is
available in a tarball. I'd say Paul is as "restrictive" as Linus Torvalds.
I doubt Paul would charge for the devel version. I've heard various
scenarios for making Ardour pay off in hard currency, but I think its
developers closer concern is to get 1.0 out the door in creditable shape.
Btw, you can check out Ardour development in realtime on its IRC
channel, #ardour on freenet. :)
Best,
dp