Re: ALSA homepage redesign

[Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@shaw.ca>]

On April 22, 2002 08:12 am, you wrote:
> >> and testing a few changes), so it'll be clear that the API is finished
> >> and code is working.
> >
> >It is? Last time I tried using Rawmidi on an emu10k1 chip I got no sound.
> > I had a soundfont loaded, and tried with my own code and the rawmidi demo
> > source. Midi would play with the pmidi program. I've mentioned it once
> > before, nothing came of it, so Im mentioning it again. :)
>
> most people don't understand that there is a total of about 2 people
> working on ALSA at any one time. ALSA is not a large, distributed
> project team: it consists of Jaroslav and right now Takashi, with
> occasional contributions from driver writers and application
> developers who wade into the ALSA source code.
>
> when problems get reported with particular chipsets/audio interfaces,
> there is no large group of developers from which one might hope for a
> volunteer to study the bug. Takashi and Jaroslav both do good work
> tracking down such bugs when they have easy access to the hardware in
> question and some time, but for most everything else, the bug waits
> until someone steps up to fix it. the hope is that with incorporation
> into the 2.5 kernel source base, the set of developers who work on
> problems like yours will increase.
>

Ah. I didn't intend to sound too much like a child... I wasn't trying to 
force the issue, just let the developers know about it. Its what I usually do 
when I find a problem that I can't fix myself. I (hopefully) make sure that 
the right people know about it. 

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Thomas Fjellstrom
tfjellstrom@shaw.ca
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