Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:50:17 +0300 From: "Yuriy Tsibizov" <Yuriy.Tsibizov@gfk.ru> To: <yongari@kt-is.co.kr> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: RE: audio code maintainers, A call to arms Message-ID: <D6B2C454E5A77B4D8DA0B863D3D6D492070E6F@demon.hhp.local>
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> 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.
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