UPDATE: Looks like I got one through to LAD finally.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 5:18 PM J. Liles <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> This is a critical juncture. I need your help. Please forward this
> message to the LAA, LAD or LAU lists or post it wherever you can (if
> someone else hasn't already succeeded in getting it through.)
>
> I am being censored.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: J. Liles <[email protected]>
> Date: Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 5:12 PM
> Subject: READ THIS IF YOU CARE ABOUT FREEDOM! Fwd: [LAA] Non DAW
> release including Non Session Manager (i.e. the real NSM)
> To: lad <[email protected]>
>
>
> The following message was sent to the LAA list, as usual for release
> announcements. The anonymous person behind the LAA mail list admin
> refuses to comment on his identity. Coincidentally, Filipe Ceolho also
> declined to answer my direct inquiry as to whether he has also assumed
> control of LAA as he has so many other channels. The same Filipe
> Coelho who has taken it upon himself to take control of basically all
> the important projects and channels of communication in Linux Audio.
> For totally benevolent reasons, I'm sure (well, except for all the
> slander, deception, hostile takeovers, etc.) Of course, you will have
> noticed that the message never appeared there. That is, of course,
> assuming that this one is by some miracle or oversight allowed to pass
> the censor.
>
> Even if you don't care about Non, you should care about this, as it
> affects your freedom of speech as well as mine. The Free Software
> movement that I joined was about Freedom foremost, and software merely
> being a mode or expression of that freedom, and I suspect the same is
> true of many for many of you.
>
> Read this and judge for yourself whether Filipe and his comrades are
> acting in good faith.
>
> For obvious reasons, even if you are able to read this, this may be
> the last time you are able to hear from me or anyone like me. For the
> time being, I still have access to the Non project website and mailing
> list and I encourage anyone interested in future updates to sign up
> there.
>
> (If you are reading this message as a cross post on a list where it's
> off topic, I apologize and ask that you kindly excuse the
> intrusion---necessary under the unfortunate circumstances.)
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: J. Liles <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 6:18 PM
> Subject: [LAA] Non DAW release including Non Session Manager (i.e. the real
> NSM)
> To: <[email protected]>
> Cc: lad <[email protected]>
>
>
> **** Project URL: https://non.tuxfamily.org ****
>
> Greetings, developers and users of Linux Audio of the old dispensation.
>
> This message is to announce a new release of the Non suite containing
> many changes, mostly fixes for rare bugs and theme improvements. The
> release has come a bit sooner than I had planned due to changing
> circumstances (I was undeceived regarding the possibility of there
> being some patches forthcoming).
>
> Just a friendly reminder, NSM stands for Non Session Manager. I am the
> author, inventor, developer, and maintainer of NSM (Hi there NSM
> fans!) There has been a lot of misleading information published about
> NSM lately, and I don't want anyone to be deceived by it.
>
> Some matters of note: due to frequent and continued abuse and
> harassment, the GitHub issue tracker has been disabled. In light of
> this, there is a new policy for bug reports/feature requests which has
> been posted to the Non mailing list.
>
> The aforementioned harassment has got me thinking about my long
> history in Linux Audio, in a community that I once felt very much a
> part of. I feel that there has been a sea change and the old guard is
> less involved than they used to be (myself included) and the new
> dispensation is a rather nasty and unfavorable one. I'm sure there are
> many depressing reasons for this which I need not go into as they
> extend far beyond the context of Linux Audio. Anyway, after reflecting
> on how I was presently being treated, it occurred to me that it's
> unlikely that I'm the only one, so I want to take a moment to offer my
> thanks and pay my respects to the great men of Linux Audio.
>
> To Fons Adriaensen: your work, particularly your LADSPA plugins and
> Ambisonics tools has enabled and inspired my own work. The neatness
> and low dependency count of your code is something we should all
> aspire to. Your sage advice has always been helpful and
> instructive.There is much I couldn't have done without you. Thank you.
>
> To Paul Davis: By inventing JACK, you enabled not only me, but a whole
> community/generation of developers to think in terms of cooperation
> and interoperability rather than monolithism, competition, and
> lock-in. Even though you may have lost interest in JACK yourself, I
> will always be grateful for your contribution, no matter how badly
> JACK is defaced by its present maintainers or undermined by those who
> desire to take from you that seat of honor. Thank you.
>
> To Dave Griffiths: Your unrestrained creativity and originality have
> been truly inspiring to me, and your SpiralSynthModular and Pawfaliki
> software have been directly useful to me. Nobody may have noticed, but
> both the Non website and my personal blog run on heavily modified
> versions of Pawfaliki. Your work deserves much more attention than it
> gets. Thank you.
>
> To Paul Nasca: ZynAddSubFX has been a near constant companion to me
> throughout my time in Linux Audio. It is truly a masterpiece, and
> exemplifies the same set of standards that I have tried to adhere to
> in my own projects (fast, light, powerful). Thank you.
>
> To J.P Mercury: Freewheeling was a stroke of brilliance and I'm sure I
> only scratched the surface of what it could do. You are an
> inspiration. Thank you.
>
> To Mark McCurry: You have been an excellent and upstanding maintainer
> of ZynAddSubFX and truly improved it over the years. Your dedication
> to tooling and automation is exemplary---I don't know how you find the
> time to work on the tooling so much and still make progress on the
> project itself. I have very much enjoyed our conversations and have
> felt privileged to be a contributor to ZynAddSubFX. I am also grateful
> to you for your contributions to Non, chiefly the plugin frequency
> response visualizer, which is a constant help to me in my work. You
> have pushed the technology forward with RtOSC, and I hope to someday
> integrate that stack into Non's OSC::Signal framework. What's more
> you've been a friend, and friendly people are so very hard to find in
> this world. Thank you.
>
> To Harry van Harren: It was a great pleasure to provide to you
> whatever mentorship that I could. Your youthful exuberance has always
> been an inspiration to me. I was very pleased that you took some of
> the ideas from FLTK/Non to heart and decided to take the path less
> travelled in your projects rather than, as far more commonly happens,
> taking the easy way out. I look forward to seeing more great
> accomplishments from you in the future.
>
> Thanks also goes out to Rui Capela, David Robillard, Nedko Arnaudov,
> Bill Spitzak, Shawn Betts, all the authors of the precious LADSPA
> plugins that are RT-safe and don't just blast and crash. While I may
> have had disagreements with some of these men over technical or
> philosophical matters, I have always respected them and their work and
> appreciated the fact that we could disagree on some things, agree on
> others, and still get the work done. I'm afraid that this level of
> maturity now exists only in a culture past. I'm sure there are some
> who were left out of this list unintentionally, and if so I apologize
> for that oversight. Others were left out intentionally and I'm sure
> they will know who they are and why they don't deserve to be included
> in a list of honorable men.
>
> On that note, despite the slanderous statements made recently by a
> certain gang of thugs regarding NSM, I would like to formally clarify,
> since they flatly refuse to do so, and state that NSM (nor any of my
> software) has never contained ads or spyware, that it is indeed and
> has always been Free Software, and that this gang, who purport to
> represent this community, never offered to contribute to NSM or
> participate in its development. The leader of this gang, Filipe
> Coelho, has abused his position as a distro maintainer to attempt to
> take over development of NSM and other projects which represent
> critical subsystems in Linux Audio. This is quite obviously bad news
> for the community (as all power/control is being concentrated in the
> hands of obvious bad-actors). Who knows what will come of this, but I
> doubt it will be good. For myself, this event together with the
> campaign of harassment and abuse has put me in a position of being
> very reluctant to publish my continuing development or to begin any
> new free-software projects (for which I have many, many ideas),
> knowing, as I now know, that the consequences for me will be wholly
> negative. I hope this hasn't also been the experience of all of the
> other developers that I mentioned. I know at least one of them has
> been compensated well for his work, but I'm sure he had to put up with
> plenty of abuse too. The others, I fear, have probably, like myself,
> been repaid primarily with abuse.
>
> I worry about us as a community and us as a culture when I see that we
> act to stamp out creativity, invention, standards of quality, etc. To
> the people who stand by and say nothing while this happens: what kind
> of future will you have to look forward to? Linux Audio is already a
> shrinking niche. We need more creativity and invention, not less. If
> you keep punishing and abusing people for dedicating their lives to
> giving you free stuff, then wherever are you going to get more free
> stuff?
>
> I implore everyone to consider the effects of their inactions as well
> as their actions, not only in this context but in life in general.
>
> And a special message to Filipe Coelho, who has a made it something of
> a personal mission to defame me and my work (and probably the work of
> others I'm unaware of):
>
> I forgive you. I forgive you for slandering me and my project. I
> forgive you for making unreasonable demands of me. I forgive you for
> not contributing code or documentation. I forgive you for harassing me
> and encouraging others to do the same. I forgive you for never having
> created anything that was useful to me, as I have clearly done
> repeatedly for you. I forgive you for violating my friendship. I
> forgive you for deceiving the LA community. I forgive you for creating
> disruption, schism, and incompatibility in a sphere where there was
> before (finally!) only harmony and unity. I sincerely hope that you
> can one day find some source of joy in your life that does not involve
> harming others, maybe even an original project of your own---something
> that you could really take pride in.
>
> My thanks goes to Olivier Humbert and John Rigg who were the two
> people besides myself who contributed code for this release.
>
> And to anyone who was thinking of submitting a patch to my project or
> anyone else's, or who was thinking of donating, or just saying
> "thanks," what are you waiting for? None of us lives forever, you
> know. For every one "thank you" email this developer gets, he gets at
> least a hundred insults. I have no idea whether or not that's a
> typical figure, but it's probably in the same order of magnitude.
>
> **************************
> A brief interlude for the Parable of the Free Software Developer and
> the Imposing Stranger (may the developers who read this know that they
> are not alone in their trials, and may the users who read this take a
> brief stroll in a developer's shoes).
> **************************
>
> A man builds a lodging house from the ground up with his own two
> hands. One evening he is sitting in the house, in front of the
> fireplace, enjoying the fruits of his labor, wondering if it was all
> worthwhile---worth the broken leg, the battered thumb, the lost
> comfort of the wife that left him---, when a stranger bursts through
> the front door without knocking, bringing into the room with him a
> small flurry of snowflakes.
>
> "Hello?" the man says.
>
> "There should be a window here," says the stranger, pointing at the
> space above the fireplace.
>
> The man is too baffled by this statement to ask the stranger why he
> has barged into his house.
>
> "But that's where the chimney is. I can't put a window there."
>
> "You refuse to put in a window? A very impudent fellow you are. I've
> seen houses that had a window just there. It was a mansion in the
> hills, designed by an exceedingly famous and eccentric architect, and
> was built by a crew of a hundred men in 20 days. If they could do it
> so can you."
>
> "I built this house myself, with my own two hands, and it took me 20
> years. The best years of my life, they were---my very youth was spent
> on this house. I put everything in its right place, including that
> chimney and every brick in it! I like to sit here in front of the fire
> and warm my tired old bones which still ache from my labors."
>
> "Nevertheless, it would be better with a window there."
>
> "But I explained to you, the chimney must go there. You can't have a
> fireplace without a chimney; there would be nowhere for the smoke to
> escape."
>
> "That isn't my concern. Don't be difficult. A house simply isn't
> worthwhile without a window over the fireplace. Why, I once saw a
> mansion that---"
>
> "---excuse me, but do these mansions have to do with me and my humble
> lodging house? I don't need a window there and none of my guests have
> ever needed one either. Furthermore, those mendicants over there
> stitching up their robes were very grateful for this fire and that
> hall to sleep in."
>
> "I say! Won't you just make me a window?"
>
> "By God! It's the dead of winter! Who needs a window now? And why
> should I make a window for you in my own house? You, who neither offer
> to help nor to pay for the work, and when there are other things in
> need of attention like that spongy board in the floor over which
> you're standing, or that drip in the corner of the loft whenever there
> is a heavy rain?"
>
> "Because, old man, I am the one who wants, and you are the one who
> provides. This shabby little house that you built was meant to be a
> delight for me---for my pleasure and enjoyment---, but I find it to be
> a very shabby house indeed. That hideous chimney will surely have to
> go. The window is only the beginning. I have many grand ideas for
> improvements. Wheels on the eaves, a skating rink in the kitchen, a
> king sized bed on the rooftop! I'm full of brilliant ideas. Why I've
> just had another one: we'll turn the bathtub into one of those little
> pissing imp fountains! What jolly fun! I've traveled the world and
> seen many wondrous mansions built by eccentric and famous architects.
> So surely I must know what is good and what isn't."
>
> "And have you ever built a house yourself?"
>
> "Why no."
>
> "And have you ever seen a house being built?"
>
> "Of course not, you old dolt!"
>
> "Then what expertise do you have regarding the way that a house should be
> made?"
>
> "Expertise is for doers like you. Doing is beneath me. I entertain
> myself with the works of lesser beings. I'm an idea man, you see.
> Ideas come to men like me, brilliant, inspired ideas, but not to men
> such as yourself. An idea man doesn't trouble himself with petty
> questions of how or why. He can't slow down, he's got too many grand
> ideas for that! Now either you get to work, old man, or I'm going to
> tell the whole world what a difficult little personality you have!
> I'll tell them you violated the Code of Conduct (signed by yours
> truly, natch). The Community owns this building, you are merely our
> free labor. We owned it from the moment you opened the door, out of
> your pathetic 'kindness' and 'goodwill' and let someone sleep here for
> free. I saw the shingle on the door, with the silhouette of the Holy
> Beast of the Resplendent Horns. This place is Community property,
> mister. So what's it going to be? Will you make for me my pleasure
> window?"
>
> "I will not. It doesn't make sense. Everyone would freeze to death
> without the fireplace and that chimney. What good is a house with a
> pleasure window to a dead man? Nothing you say makes sense. It's as
> though you're living in a dream, with no concept of the forethought
> and effort that goes into such things as building houses. I know the
> community. I feed the community. I shelter the community. I've never
> turned away a man in need. And I've never seen your face before today,
> Sir."
>
> "Difficult! Hard to work with! Totally unreasonable! I say! I'm
> telling on you! You should have known what to expect when you built
> this house and when you hung that shingle by the door pledging with a
> sacred oath that you would accept all comers. By denying me my exalted
> whims you have spurned me, old man, and for that you will be cursed.
> The ruling is forthcoming. You shall rue this day!"
>
> (This scene repeats the next night with a different imposing
> stranger---sometimes alone and sometimes together in gangs---, and the
> night after that, and forever thereafter, until the old man dies.)
>
> ______________
>
> When you look into your heart, which character in this story are you?
> The old man who built the house? A kind young man who offers to help
> him fix the leaky roof or to build a gazebo (these being too few and
> far between to have appeared on this night)? The person who merely
> accepts the kindness of a free meal and a warm bed without complaint?
> One of the priests of the Order of the Holy Beast of the Resplendent
> Horns? Or are you the imposing stranger whose existence consists of
> delighting in the creations (and suffering) of others, whom he
> considers beneath him?
>
> Of course, as complex as human existence is, one might play each of
> these roles in turn in life, or several simultaneously. The important
> thing is to know what you're doing in the moment, and ask yourself,
> will this bring peace and happiness, or will this bring grief and
> suffering?
>
> **************************
> Shortlog for this release
> **************************
>
> Jonathan Moore Liles (94):
> nonlib/OSC: Don't try to send feedback to non-existent path.
> Upgrade waf to 2.0.9
> Update NTK submodule.
> wscript: Fix install error caused by upgrade to waf 2.0.9.
> Upgrade waf to 2.0.18
> Mixer: Fix crash when closing project containing certain
> configurations of modules.
> Session-manager: Work around for clients with stupidly large icons.
> Mixer: Tweak module colors. Show LADSPA plugins in a different color.
> Mixer: Show strip number at top of each strip (eases mentally
> mapping onto hardware control surface).
> Sequencer: Save file to tmp file before overwriting original.
> Sequencer: Fix casting/sign related bug which could cause a hang
> during SMF writing.
> Timeline: Tweak style of audio regions.
> Timeline: Tweak style of measure lines.
> Sequencer: Fix off-by-one bug preventing notes from being
> inserted ahead of other notes.
> Sequencer: Fix configuration bug causing error message "Couldn't
> open instrument directory".
> Timeline: Make clocks look more contrasty with light color scheme.
> Sequencer: Add some missing items to GM Drum note map.
> Mixer: Fix off by one bug in strip autoconnect affecting Auxes.
> Mixer: Remove superfluous semicolon.
> Mixer: Improve contrast with light color scheme.
> Mixer: Fix osc/midi by-number mode control for strips with names
> containing punctuation and spaces.
> Mixer: Give better visual feedback in control OSC/MIDI learning mode.
> Sequencer: Tweak appearance to look better with different color schemes.
> Sequencer: Just use theme UP_BOX for note shape...
> Midi-Mapper: Don't get confused if user neglects to operate all
> controls on the first run.
> Sequencer: Don't crash when user picks the branch instead of the
> leaf in scale chooser.
> MIDI-Mapper: Preserve mapping creation order when
> loading/saving. This makes it possible to fiddle controls in a defined
> order and then edit the file to give them useful names.
> MIDI-Mapper: Require controls to be actuated/moved twice before
> mapping signal in order to detect whether value has 14, 7 or 1
> significant bits. Also, support non-motirzed faders/endless encoders
> by not transmitting control change until value of controller comes
> within 5% of value of signal. Also, change file format (backwards
> compatible). Also, fix some issues with NRPN decoding.
> nonlib/MIDI: Cleanup some type signatures.
> Timeline: Improve error message for sf_open create.
> Timeline: Fix rare segfault which occurred when region loop
> point is just beyond the end of a region and at the beginning of a
> buffer.
> Timeline: Redraw right hand child region on split.
> Mixer: Show strip number at top of each strip (eases mentally
> mapping onto hardware control surface).
> Timeline: Tweak styling of selected regions.
> Mixer: Allow Mono Pan module to be added a stereo chain. This
> converts the signal to mono and then pans the result. Useful for
> auditioning a mix in mono.
> Mixer: Dezipper spatializer azimuth and elevation automation.
> Mixer: Make panner points more opaque.
> Sequencer: Fix bug in fitting scale to viewport.
> Mixer/Module_Parameter_Editor: Increase font sizes, tweak boxtypes.
> FL/Fl_Sometimes_Input: Allow user to abort edit with Escape key.
> Timeline,Mixer: Tweak colors for light themes.
> Mixer: Tweak meter appearance to look better with light color schemes.
> Mixer/Module_Parameter_Editor: Tweak slider appearance.
> Mixer/DPM: Quick hack to add smoothing to meter values.
> nonlib/OSC/Endpoint: Work around for liblo/UDP layer dropping
> packets on bulk signal listing.
> Timeline: Split OSC send and receive functionality into different
> threads.
> Mixer: Tweak meter appearance.
> Mixer: Avoid some unnecessary redraws when opening project.
> Timeline: Add "Disabled" fade type to disable both fade and
> declicking for cases where regions need to be abutted perfectly.
> Timeline: Don't forget to log changing takes after the fact.
> Mixer: Tweak meter appearance.
> Mixer: Tweak strip highlighting.
> Mixer/Module_Parameter_Editor: Tweak layout so that 4-Band
> Parametric Filter plugin is more legible.
> Sequencer: Fix crash in event editor.
> Sequencer: Use a 3 break gradient for velocity colors.
> Mixer: Make meters more efficient.
> Mixer,Timeline: Fix port connection drag and drop between applications.
> Mixer: Tweak appearance.
> Timeline: Acquire sequence lock for region split.
> Mixer: Implement slow fall off for meters.
> Mixer: Fix crash when disabling strip auto output.
> Mixer: Fix crash if user messes with the window while project is
> loading.
> Timeline: Don't send the same OSC control sequence value twice
> and so avoid messing with OSC learning in non-mixer when transport is
> stopped.
> Mixer: Try to better cope with parameter feedback feedback cycles.
> Timeline: fix crash when removing a track.
> dsp: code style tweak.
> wscript: Use -mtune=native by default for performance boost
> benefiting those who build from source, packagers can disable.
> Mixer: Fix glitch in redrawing of meter scales when scrolling.
> Partially revert "Mixer: Avoid some unnecessary redraws when
> opening project."
> Mixer: Fix settings menu layout issue.
> Mixer: Fix JACK port disconnection when Auto Input/Output mode is
> changed.
> Mixer: Automatically run in "noui" mode if DISPLAY environment
> variable unset (i.e. X11 not available).
> Mixer: Make port autoconnection during startup and shutdown more
> efficient.
> Timeline: Don't assert if peakfile contains no blocks---it's
> probably just because it was just opened and hasn't been written into
> yet.
> Mixer: Because disconnecting/connecting JACK ports is slow, when
> handling a change of strip auto input setting, avoid disconnecting a
> port and then reconnecting it later.
> Mixer/DPM: Fix bug where peaks are sometimes not drawn.
> Mixer: Fix meter falloff in chain view.
> Mixer: fix size of SM blinker.
> Mixer: Fix crash on save after group removal.
> Mixer: Enforce stability of module OSC path over close/open cycles.
> Timeline: Fix rare issue where moving the mouse over a region
> while recording at just the right moment could cause a spurious SET
> action to be written to the history.
> Timeline: Fix region DND onto last track that was a connection DND
> source.
> Mixer: Re-transmit the minimum amount of OSC/MIDI feedback
> messages when strips are rearranged.
> Update NTK.
> Mixer: Fix export strip function.
> Update NTK.
> Revert "Add 128x128 hicolor as possible icon path"
> Mixer: Cope with some plugins having insane numbers of parameters.
> Timeline: Tweak style of loop point indicator.
> Mixer: Avoid some unnecessary reallocations when changing channel count.
> Update NTK
> Bump versions.
>
> Olivier Humbert (4):
> Update non-mixer.desktop.in
> Update non-sequencer.desktop.in
> Update non-session-manager.desktop.in
> Update non-timeline.desktop.in
>
> (NTK)
>
> Jonathan Moore Liles (10):
> Upgrade to waf 2.0.9.
> Upgrade waf to 2.0.18.
> Tweak themes for more color consistency.
> Workaround for zynaddsubfx.
> More theme tweaks.
> ntk-chtheme: Add new color scheme. Save/restore selection color.
> Clean up some inconsistencies in themes.
> fl_contrast: Return FL_FOREGROUND or FL_BACKGROUND rather than
> FL_BLACK and FL_WHITE...
> Adjust color schemes.
> Tweak themes.
>
> John Rigg (1):
> themes: Workaround for bug where a background color of RGB 0,0,0
> in Black color scheme is sometimes drawn as green.
>
> **************************
> And just for kicks, here's the all time shortlog leaderboard. Keep
> those PRs coming!
> **************************
>
> Jonathan Moore Liles (2068):
> Nedko Arnaudov (4):
> Olivier Humbert (4):
> Roy Vegard Ovesen (4):
> Robert Wruck (2):
> Mathias Buhr (2):
> Daniel Appelt (1):
> Hanspeter Portner (1):
> James Morris (1):
> Juuso Alasuutari (1):
> Peter Nelson (1):
> Mark McCurry (1):
> martin (1):
> non25 (1):
> John Rigg (1):
