Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> writes: > On May 20 19:20:11, martinw...@gmail.com wrote: >> On 5/20/24 15:27, Måns Rullgård wrote: >> > Martin Guy <martinw...@gmail.com> writes: >> > > I would post an issue and patch on sourceforge, but that seems useless as >> > > the existing patches haven't been applied since 2006. >> > You can send patches to this mailing list. >> >> Here. >> >> In general, though, sox's SF issue tracker seems to be ineffective, which >> both impacts the quality and functionality of sox, but also discourages >> well-intentioned people from contributing to it, as they start out >> enthusiastic, follow what seem like the right steps, and then are ignored >> for decades. I am one example of that. I've added log frequency axis to >> sndfile-tools' sndfile-spectrogram and would have done the same for sox but >> it seemed pointless after the FFTW patches being ignored for so long, making >> me have to update them to stride code changes, until I eventually gave the >> idea up as wasted work. >> >> There are contributions with patches from 2006, which may or may not be >> useful these days. There are patch suggestions that give links to github >> repos that have long since been deleted, but the pointless issue persists on >> SF. >> >> This gives the public impression to developers is that it is abandonware or >> only-us-not-you-ware. >> >> Could the project use some help, as I've been programming since I was 13 and >> am now 60 and on a pension so I can choose what I work on, and resolving the >> sox SF issues seems worth doing as it is an excellent tool that seems >> neglected in that area. >> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> M >> > > Yes. There has been a void in actual maintainership for a long time. > Is anyone sure what the upstream actualy is? The downstream ports > I care to follow either start at 14.4.2 and stack up their own patches > (including random diffs floating around, or one of the github forks), > or just gave up and chose one github repo or another. > > Is there anyone on this list who considers thamselves to be > a "maintainer" of SoX? Or at least someone who even has the > commit rights to sox.sf.net (the repo, the bugtracker)? > Does anyone of the current users remember what SourceForge was? > > I vaguely remember the names of Ulrich Klauer and Chris Bagwell, > and a guy named Rob; much like remembering Gilgamesh or Heracles > - yeah, there was this guy who once did that, they say.
I have admin access to the SF project. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to spend much time on maintenance tasks recently. -- Måns Rullgård _______________________________________________ SoX-devel mailing list SoX-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sox-devel
