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On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 19:26 -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
> I've gotten the impression from reading Dave's comments on IRC over the

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>  past few years that he really doesn't want to make releases at all, or

>  to have users, even. Ingen/Patchage seems more to me like a personal

>  fun project than a user-friendly "product" and packaging it up for

>  people to install via RPM's or DEB's.

Well, making releases is no fun. Especially not if you are a

perfectionist and always find issues that you don't want to push on

users.
There have been many deep changes, entire rewrites, each pushing Ingen

away from a releasable state for a while.
Add to that the huge time cost for working on Ardour MIDI and LV2.
I can tell you from work on the GUI that Dave does care about users

other than himself.
> Perhaps someone would like to create a "fork" (I

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>  use that word with great caution, but I don't want to use euphemisms

>  either), of Ingen/Patchage, via a Git repository available online,

>  where people can create patches to make the thing more packageable and

>  do testing on it and bugfixes and such, then of course Dave can pick

>  and choose what changes/patches he'd want to include in his SVN

>  branch.

>

> I'd willing to host such a repo, if it would be helpful. Ingen/Patchage

>  is very cool software with a great UI, and shows lots of promise. But

>  for Ingen to be more widely used it'd need a maintainer (or group of

>  maintainers) who wants it to be widely used and has the time/interest

>  to do the work required to make it that way (i.e. making releases,

>  dealing with distro maintainers, keeping up the documentation, etc.).

A fork is not a good approach. Having a release manager and packagers

and people who can do some user support to take all that off Dave's

shoulders would be great, I think. Branch yes, fork no.
--

Thorsten Wilms
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