From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 18 11:51:32 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5D9216A4CE for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:51:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from md.gfk.ru (md.f231.gfk.ru [84.21.231.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40DA243D48 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:51:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Yuriy.Tsibizov@gfk.ru) Received: from demon.hhp.local ([10.0.0.8]) by md.gfk.ru (md.gfk.ru [62.205.179.201]) (MDaemon.PRO.v6.8.5.R) with ESMTP id 17-md50000000585.tmp for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:50:19 +0300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6603.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:50:17 +0300 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: audio code maintainers, A call to arms Thread-Index: AcT8VCA1UzTmN1NmQTeJmVk1/jPjVwA/U73A From: "Yuriy Tsibizov" To: X-Spam-Processed: md.gfk.ru, Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:50:19 +0300 (not processed: message from valid local sender) X-MDRemoteIP: 10.0.0.8 X-Return-Path: Yuriy.Tsibizov@gfk.ru X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: multimedia@freebsd.org cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: RE: audio code maintainers, A call to arms X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:51:32 -0000 > On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 01:09:42PM -0500, Mathew Kanner wrote: > [...] > > Hi Julian, > > First, I guess I owe an apology to the list and to freebsd in > > general for dragging my feet on MIDI. The stunning silence is > > incredibly demotivating to me. Over the many months think=20 > I've had one > > positive response to my work (it works!) and one negative (does not > > compile for non-i386, printf qualifiers). I never=20 > expected to be in a > > vacuum. Then again, I'm one of those sensitive types. > >=20 >=20 > I guess you can commit your work to HEAD and let people give it > spin. Since we don't have MIDI support now committing new one > wouldn't break anything. It couldn't be fixed until new code > shows up in tree. For non-i386 compile issues I can help you for > sparc64. Other developers would help other issue(i.e. locking) too. >=20 > > To move forward we need to: > >=20 > > - Get a new sound team. I don't know how to go about this, maybe a > > general call to arms, or an appointment from core or maybe a > > guillotine backed revolution. > >=20 >=20 > I can see at least there are three developers(Kazuhito HONDA, > Conrad J. Sabatier and Yuriy Tsibizov : CCed) are interested in > maintaining our sound subsystem. Since we do have lack of > maintainers of our sound subsystem it would be really great to > see new developers that have commit privilege in this area. > Personally I guess both Julian Elischer(for USB sound) and > Mathew Kanner(for MIDI and sound infrastructure) can mentor > these developers. I'm not shure in 1)my free time (sometimes I'm thinking about throwing = away my home computer, it eats up a lot of time) and 2)my programming skills. Yuriy.