Hi, On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Carlo Wood wrote:
> I only see questions on this list, > and nobody who answers them. [...] > Where are the developers? Is ALSA still maintained? ALSA is definitely maintained, and alsa-devel is the correct list. ALSA actually has quite a good history in project activity. Development has continued without breaks for over five years now and it certainly hasn't slowed down recently. I've been developing ALSA applications since 1999, and well, I'm still here! :) But for the last few years the users/developers ratio has simply gone through the roof, and nowadays the developers are simply overwhelmed with different kinds of requests/reports (both from users and application developers). I cannot speak for them, but I'd guess they simply have to ignore some of the issues (even good, valid reports), or otherwise they wouldn't have time for the actual development work. I guess the state of OSS audio in current kernels is one reason for the massive interest in ALSA. Unfortunately there hasn't been a similar flood of developers to ALSA. Hopefully now that ALSA is in linux-2.5.xx this situation will slowly change. As with other busy FOSS projects (Linux kernel, Apache), you have to be patient to get developer attention. For example, writing a small test program that demonstrates the problem is a good way to make debugging/fixing easier for the developers (and increases the likelihood that they will look at your issue). But I guess - if you are the same guy who has been writing to the linux-c++ list - you already know this. ;) -- http://www.eca.cx Audio software for Linux! ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
