On 11/19/2014 12:19 AM, Rob Kudla wrote: > On 11/18/2014 02:23 PM, Vesa wrote: >> Well, if you have old projects, you'll just have to finish them with 1.1 >> or 1.2 and render them to wavs. Then publish them, forget about it, and >> make new music with 2.0. > If this is the current development team's outlook, I really think LMMS 2.x > needs to be called something other than LMMS
Again? Welp, time for another round of bikeshedding... :D (my prediction: we'll all talk about it for the next 2 months and end up with no one agreeing on the new name, thus keeping the current one) > (and the project file > extensions should change too.) This could be done. The "MultiMedia Project" doesn't really describe LMMS projects very well, there's very little "multimedia" in LMMS... in fact, I don't recall anyone talking about "multimedia" since the 90s. Is "multimedia" even a thing anymore? Does anyone remember "multimedia"? > At a minimum, it should import the tracks' note events as though they're > coming from a standard MIDI file, perhaps with an idiot dialog that says > "Here's the notes, but now you're on your own". Most people on this list, > myself included, could write something that lazy in an afternoon. So you're volunteering to do this then? Cool. Better do it as an import plugin, similar to the MIDI/FLP/Hydrogen ones, that way we can keep any legacy cruft confined to one area. > The free software world, especially the multimedia side, is littered with > the remains of projects that began to stagnate, only to have someone with a > lot of energy show up So you're saying it's better to let them stagnate? > with a bunch of commits and take a leadership role by > default, say "This code is awful to work with, so let's toss out the cruft > and redesign this from the ground up!", usually complete with a bunch of > snazzy mockups, a website redesign and a thoroughly-documented architecture > that decouples presentation from backend processing, only to have the > latecomer lose steam (or depart in a puff of manufactured drama) Uh... > when he > realizes he's got hundreds of thousands of lines of code to rewrite from > scratch, most of the features that sold the 1.x version never quite seem to > make it to 2.x, the 1.x version gets removed from popular distributions > because it's obsolete even though the entire ecosystem still revolves > around it, and then the 2.x version gets removed too because it's so broken. Wow. That's seriously a pretty horrible attitude to bring to the table there. Developers have feelings too, you know. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list LMMS-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
