Re: [LAU] [LAD] OpenOctaveMidi2 (OOM2) beta release

On 01/28/2011 03:57 AM, Christopher Cherrett wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [LAD] OpenOctaveMidi2 (OOM2) beta release
> From: Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden>
> To: alex stone <compose59@email-addr-hidden>
> Cc: LAU Mail List <linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden>, Linux Audio
> Developers <Linux-audio-dev@email-addr-hidden>
> Date: 01/27/2011 09:52 AM
>> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:46 AM, alex stone<compose59@email-addr-hidden>
>> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Paul
>>> Davis<paul@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:39 AM, alex stone<compose59@email-addr-hidden>
>>>> wrote:
>> [ ... ]
>>
>> good grief!
>>
>> i never said you were bad people. i have a lot of respect for you and
>> chris. i was just puzzled and bit bothered that you would fork Muse
>> and announce OOM2 without anything that notified people of that
>> relationship. If you had forked *any* existing project of that size,
>> for *any* purpose, I would have thought it would be common, normal
>> practice to do make that link so that people (users, developers,
>> supporters etc.) could make that link too.
>>
>> apparently, you feel otherwise. that's fine, just a little odd for
>> most open source projects, that's all.
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> Possibly you want to choose your words more carefully.
>
> I have worked my but off for the last month. My head is burning from
> no sleep. My team is worn down from no sleep and it all started with
> Ardour falling apart in our studios.
>
> As I said there would be no oom2 if not for Ardour coming down around
> us. Sad I had to say this publicly, however you picked the location.
>
> You have no place to try to do such damage.

So, you spent a whole month on a fork of Muse because of a problem you
found in Ardour and you claim it is Ardours fault that you didn't
acknowledge the heritage of your new project?

Seems a bit rash to me. 320+ hours of dev time on the problem in Ardour
would probably have fixed the issue you claim as a blocker.

New projects are fine and working from existing codebases is definitely
the way to go but creating a whole new project because of a limitation
you have found in an existing actively developed and maintained project
seems like a waste of time and unnecessary fragmentation to me.

-- 
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.
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