Re: [SoX-devel] Offering to step up as new SoX maintainer

[Martin Guy]

On 6/5/24 22:55, Jan Stary wrote:

On Jun 05 12:29:03, martinw...@gmail.com wrote:

I suggest coordinating with distro maintainers, first
(most notably Debian).

Yes, I'm collecting a list of the 47 different distro maintainers' emails

What 47 distributions are that?

As listed in repology.org, where Debian, Ubuntu and Mint are all considered one distro as they stem from the same package.

(You don't need to email them, their downstream ports exist online,
including the list of patches they are forced to use. You can go
through each and every one of those patches, make sure the patch
gets incorporated "upstram", whatever upstream that is,
and _then_ email them it works.)

Right. Something like that was planned but you've made the process clearer to me. Thanks.

You wouldn't believe the number of crappy web forms I've had to fill in,

To compare, I have clicked a button to create my fork.

So, are you saying that we should move to guthug because you're already registered there and so it's easier for you personally (and so is easier for everyone else who is already there? Your fork was easier to create than mine because you were already registered on a site that already carries sox and didn't have to create an autonomous organization with its own new email, mailing lists and so on. I haven't even looked at registering a domain for its web presence, but maybe some "Pages" thing or wiki will suffice for that. I'll follow Eric's advice about accessibility, first and foremost, although for a leaf developer the only thing that changes is the origin URL they pull and push from and to and the name of the mailing list(s). The rest is froth except maybe for anything else that's on the hosting platform, like wikies or bug reports, which is another good reason to keep the bug list and all documentation in the source tree, not on someone else's external server that can go away without notice leaving the project lobotomised (this has alreday happened to me while working on the eLua project. They kept their own bug tracker, the machine room suffered a flood and the admin didn't have a backup. Fortunately we could recover almost all of them from archive.org and memory.

See https://gitlab.com/martinwguy/spettro for a simple example of this: BUGS and TODO. Simple simple.

    M

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