Martin Guy <martinw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am willing to step up as the new maintainer of SoX, to: > - make a new release of SoX, 14.4.3, including fixes to all known bugs(*) > and spelling errors but no more > - after that, open the flood gates to new developments and features towards > a non-backwards-compatible release 15.0.0 > > If this cannot be done on sox.sf.net, I will make a hard fork, sox_ng, and > invite contributers to work on that instead. I already have most of the > pieces in place for this and would just need to make it public.
I suggest coordinating with distro maintainers, first (most notably Debian). Fwiw, I'm still around and use sox on a daily basis and able to help with C and possibly some autotools things via plain-text mail. > On a personal note, I have only made one proper release of a open-source > project so far, at start of year, and it took me three months, so I can > understand the current maintainer(s) being shy of doing it. It is a lot of > boring work. That one took so long because I also had to learn autotools and > fix all user-visible bugs instead of fiddling with it and starting new > features and improvements. This one should be easier because "configure" is > done, the roadmap for the first release is clear and I can count on > community help for the bugs. Yeah, making releases is a struggle for me in maintaining other projects, too. It hasn't gotten any easier with more users of my other software :< > That said, the fork would be on codebase.org which is a much more modern > platform than sourceforge and it can coexist peacefully with sox proper > (installing sox_ng.h, libsox_ng.so, play_ng etc) so packagers, if they > decide to switch, can make symlinks from the old names to the new and things > should work as before. Given some users of SoX are blind or don't run GUIs; I would strongly prefer accessible hosts such as GNU Savannah or possibly SourceHut (not sure if the latter remains free) I haven't checked in a while, but SF.net is no longer usable without JavaScript which presents accessibility problems for users (myself included) on ancient hardware. GitHub is totally unacceptable for the same reasons as SF, in addition to having a draconian terms-of-service. I absolutely refuse to have any social media profiles or homepage. If I could stand GUIs and web-based things, I wouldn't use sox :P I suspect I'm not the only one here. > Suggestions are welcome > > M > > (*) There are 28 CVEs open against sox-14.4.2, not the 18 that Debian has > patches for. _______________________________________________ SoX-devel mailing list SoX-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sox-devel
