I am still listening. I submitted a patch long ago. Never heard back.
On Wed 22 May 2024, 16:38 Jan Stary, <h...@stare.cz> wrote: > > >> 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. > > > > 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 have admin access to the SF project. > > Do you consider that to be the ultimate upstream of SoX code? > If so, what is the relation of the SF git master to > https://github.com/mansr/sox/commits/master/ ? > > > Unfortunately, I haven't been > > able to spend much time on maintenance tasks recently. > > sox.sf.net says "Brought to you by: cbagwell, mansr, robs, uklauer" > > https://sourceforge.net/u/mansr/activity > https://sourceforge.net/u/robs/activity > https://sourceforge.net/u/uklauer/activity > https://sourceforge.net/u/cbagwell/activity > > Is there anyone on these lists > (cross-posting to both -devel and -users) > willing to step up and maintain SoX? > > Jan > > > > _______________________________________________ > SoX-devel mailing list > SoX-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sox-devel >
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