LMMS hierarchy

 UPDATE: This is far from reality. The reality as of now is that we know who can code and who cannot, and those who can code and have sticked with LMMS for a long time have the final word.

Everyone (even you) can have their say about anything regarding LMMS, through the mailing lists, the forum, social sites or github.

A leader and/or project manager of LMMS was selected just a short while ago. The leader is supposed to ease the work of developers which previously was leading the project together. The leader organizes a bit, set goals and take some decisions. Right behind the leader is a lot of people with their own opinions, so the leader have to cooperate and in the end everything are actually still pretty democratic.

The ones actually working with the software is of course the developers, and they discuss and agree on what should be developed and fixed. They take the suggestions and feedback from users into their discussions and considerations. The founder of LMMS has a lot to say in every case and usually knows best, at least up until now. Many devs are involved, but some tend to be more active than others and thus have the chance to prioritize what they think is important. Fixing bugs is tedious work (and sometimes perhaps boring), but highly important, so if you are a developer you know what you got to do. There is also a man appointed out to coordinate the GUI changes.

Superusers is the users who are more than average interested in LMMS and do more for it than most people do. People who test future versions and submit bugs, and/or help out other users in need, and/or, make LMMS themes or artwork, and/or translates LMMS, and/or acts as a link between regular users and the developing process. I for example try to inform regular users about everything LMMS related, the guys running the lmms facebook page do a lot of great work, and the ones that have taken initiative for LMMS contests and volunteered as judges has been busy lately.

At the bottom we have the users, but not really at the bottom still. This article might show who got the most power to change LMMS, but the average user is probably having most of the fun, as he should be having! I am having a lot of fun too running this blog, but even that is sometimes hard and it naturally takes time, so I can only imagine how it would be to be a developer.

Now you know more about how the reality is for the persons involved in the project. LMMS won't get better without someone working at it. Are you up for the task? If you want to get involved and don't have programming skills you can be a tester and report bugs on github, translate the program to other languages, come up with ideas for the program and for the FB-site, answer comments and help others on the forum, Google+ and the FB-site, design themes, sounds and presets and share them on the sharing platform.