Vladimir,

 > Did any other admins objected? Or it just did not work technically?

I tried but I didn't find your SourceForge user. If you mail it to me (off-list)
or to the list I'm able to add you.

Cheers
Joachim

Am 01.09.2011 16:49, schrieb Vladimir Avdonin:
> Joe,
>
> You are listed as project admin. Did you ever try adding anyone to svn access?
>
> Few months ago you said you could add me to the project, but that ended with 
> nothing. Did any other admins objected? Or it just did not work technically?
>
> Regarding you experimental work:
>
> The mechanism for such activity provided by subversion is branch. Once you 
> created you branch you can screw it around in any way you please, it would 
> not affect main line of development and releases. Once your branch would 
> arrive to some agreeable good state, it can be merged back into trunk for 
> common use.
>
> If you would put you refactoring effort on the branch 4 years ago, there 
> would be a good chance someone could pick it up and help you finish it. When 
> i was working on driver code, I was wondering on some design choices for 
> class hierarchy, and I was very itchy myself to refactor the code. I decided 
> to hold my horses until I could at least discuss that with main developers.
>
> So, please, create a branch for refactoring and commit you work there. It 
> would be a shame to waste that effort.
>
> Regard,
> Vladimir
>
> On 08/31/2011 10:40 PM, Joe Emenaker wrote:
>> On 8/31/2011 4:14 PM, Michael Hawkins wrote:
>>> I ran into some rather tough jsynthlib admin's a couple of years back. I 
>>> think it was you Bill!
>> I don't think Bill is an "admin" (in the sense that he can't authorize
>> people to upload to the svn repository); I think only Joachim and Brian
>> are. The rest of us (about 15 others) have write-access to the svn, but
>> we can't add people.
>>
>>> The only thing that drives me nuts about jsynthlib is the maddening process 
>>> of laying out widgets. There simply has to be either better documentation 
>>> on it or a better way of doing it. But maybe I just still don't know what I 
>>> am doing!
>> About 4 years ago, I started on a massive (for me) re-factoring of the
>> code. I moved everything into packages which compartmentalized what
>> everything did (ie, a package for low-level MIDI message handling, a
>> package for the main GUI, a package for the widgets, etc.). The two big
>> hurdles were:
>> 1 - Rewriting the low-level MIDI stuff. As I recall, sending and polling
>> for MIDI signals was done with the GUI thread or something, so I made a
>> new thread which would handle all queuing of MIDI messages and notify
>> various sysex handlers that something had come in for them, etc. It made
>> it so that I could write a little MIDI monitor window to watch incoming
>> traffic, etc.
>> 2 - Re-vamping the hierarchy of the JSynthlib widgets. It turns out that
>> the basic JSynthlib window was named something strange, which made it
>> hard to get up to speed on how to make a new synth-lib module.
>>
>> Anyway, as you can imagine, with a huge refactor like that, there were
>> tons of compile errors as I changed around the way things were invoked,
>> etc. When I ran out of steam on it, I think there were still a handful
>> of errors that I couldn't really figure out how to best solve... so I
>> never committed the changes.
>>
>> Since the project is so dormant, I'm tempted to dig the code up again
>> and commit it just to see if it generates some renewed interest...
>>
>> - Joe
>>
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