Hi, thanks to Holger and Robin for the replies On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:10:51 +0200 Robin Gareus <[email protected]> wrote: > The generic way to do this it to simply add the tag "unmaintained" to > each project, then they'll automatically end up at > > http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/apps/categories/unmaintained > > Just add {{OTHER TAGS unmaintained}} to the page of the app e.g. > http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/apps/all/rezound
thanks for pointing this out, didn't know about that page. This is what I'll do then > > I'm pretty > > sure that if in the future it wouldn't compile anymore due for > > example to some gtk libraries not backwards compatible, someone > > would pretty fast come up with a patch. So, does it belong to the > > list? Or should we just change the name to "abandoned projects", > > and thus even examples like jack-rack would fit in? > > For non-generic info, create a wiki page. f.i. > http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/projects_that_need_loving > link to the app in question (e.g. [[:apps:all:rezound]]) - and add > detailed info there. > > The :apps:all:* name-space at http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/apps/all/* > should only contain applications and no custom-pages. >[...] > The "development" tag is intended for libraries - handy for > developers. > > I'm in touch with Emanuel Rumpf off-list to update the wiki, re-style > it and clean out the tag mess.. it's on the top of my ToDo list for > July/August. > So I'll be deleting the page I created and tagging apps unmaintained instead... but are you suggesting that a page under /wiki would still be a good idea? Maybe containing some more detailed explanations than the "unmaintained" page, like "Kluppe is great but it would greatly benefit from basic midi support"? Such a thing could potentially get complicated: shouldn't bugs and feature requests not pertain the wiki, but the project's pages/authors? Anyhow, I think the unmaintained page is allready a good resource, I just think it should be more advertised. As a more general question to the community, what do you think about setting up a system where users can donate money for a certain future to be added to a software (and the devs that do the work get the money)? The ardour project uses this thing right? It would be great if such a system could be implemented in a central place like linuxaudio.org, that way (and with this we get [almost] back on topic) one could donate money for a dead/unmaintained project to be resurrected, whereas as it is now I wouldn't know where to donate money to have say spiral synth modular add a certain future. I think it would be a nice thing for the community. What are the pros and cons of such a system? cheers renato _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
