Hello all,
(Mostly retired) SoX admin here. Just to point out that if it helps, I can add
new admins to SoX here at SF.
Certainly, in the past, SoX has been a team effort.
Just give me a shout if this is needed.
Cheers, Rob
On Tuesday 4 June 2024 at 13:21:43 CEST, 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.
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.
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.
Suggestions are welcome
M
(*) There are 28 CVEs open against sox-14.4.2, not the 18 that Debian
has patches for.
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