Friday 10 January 2014

LMMS wakes up, and it's a monster

HOW can I have gotten 32 new mails from the lmms devel list in 15 hours? (30 minutes later) HOLY CRAP, more messages.
What I read is going on now is that people throw themselves into discussions about:

  • Project Manager (Not) Wanted. A new head of LMMS is replaced by several people working with different tasks (programming, GUI, ).
  • Project migrates to Github. Github is the new for developers. All patches should be based on the new master branch. https://github.com/LMMS/lmms
  • Change the name. Most people want to keep the acronym LMMS, but drop the association with Linux. Many also want to vote for a new name.
  • Change the logo. Most people want to have a voting and change it.
  • Improved GUI.
    • Vesa accepted to act as coordinator for UI design (or all volunteers?). 
    • Arrangement of icons. Move global buttons (Play) to the top bar.
    • Arrangement of windows. Many want a single window mode like GIMP instead of floating windows. Suggested as an optional option.
    • Using CSS. Layout could possibly be managed by the theme. (Downscaling to tablets/mobiles would be less of a problem.)
  • Developer meetings. Fund a meeting with Kickstarter or use Google Hangout.
  • Real time safety? One could implement a new engine called unison written by Paul Giblock which would be better for live performances. This would require a lot of work and thus it would take a lot of time from developers, so everything else would then pause.
  • Portable/web versions of LMMS. I say this is bullshit. Someone, anyone, you can take the source and make it happen. Not the LMMS team. We have limited resources and even Coca Cola wouldn't make a program available on all freakin' platforms.
  • New lsp. Wordpress as most likely successor. Needs to be discussed a lot more, I have not joined this yet.
  • Mail or forum or both. Mail is fast and developers like it? Forums is more structured (and thus effective). New fast forums for devs needed. Mailing lists can however be read like forums http://linux-multimedia-studio-lmms.996328.n3.nabble.com.

I LOVE the enthusiasm, at the same time as I fear the devel-list is being drowned in own opinions and new ideas which complicates the actual development of LMMS. Luckily development moved to Github so pathes don't get lost in the mails.

This was unbelievable. I just sat two hours and wrote this summary for the last 20 hours. Something big is happening, much thanks to unfa.

By the way, in the middle of this the Facebook page reached 1000 likes.

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