Hello. On 12/14/2015 03:19 PM, Be wrote: > I want to ask DJ Tech Tools if they'll donate a MIDI Fighter Twister to > me. Sean mentioned on IRC there may have been some policy regarding > hardware donations. <snip> > If there is, it should be clearly on the wiki.
Controller loans and donations are procured through business agreements that the Mixxx organization enters into with manufacturers. These agreements and the resulting relationships need to be carefully managed so that Mixxx is seen as professional and taken seriously. To this end, we are bound to adhere to any manufacturers' policies regarding non-disclosure and returns so must keep track of where a given piece of hardware is (i.e. who has it,) who among the community is communicating with the manufacturer about it, what is said in that communication, and the progress of its Mixxx preset. (Hence why there's nothing on the wiki about this: these are responsibilities of a project lead, which I have been for a few years.) So please don't contact manufacturers on Mixxx's behalf. If you did, we would be responsible for the end result, thereby affecting our relationship with that manufacturer. Or more bluntly, if you disappear, the manufacturer will blame us :). (You're certainly free to reach out as an unaffiliated individual and offer to do contract work for them though.) With all of that said, when we do get hardware, we identify someone in the community to lead development of the preset. This involves sending them the device so they can do feature and maintenance work as needed. (The controller would be owned by Mixxx but on indefinite loan to that person.) If they want to retire from that duty, they must let us know and send the device to someone else who will replace them. So if you are interested in adding support to Mixxx for a particular controller to which you don't currently have access, we ask that you do the following: 1) Search the Controller Mappings forum to see if anyone else has already started one for that controller so you don't have to start from nothing (and you can collaborate with the others.) 2) Obtain the MIDI or HID spec document from the manufacturer's Web site and begin writing your preset as best you can based on that alone. 3) When your preset is ready for testing (or if the MIDI/HID spec is not publicly available) let us know. We will then get in touch with our contacts at that manufacturer (or initiate contact if applicable,) and request the spec and/or a demo unit. Hardware requests are much more likely to be granted if a preset has already been written and just needs testing and tuning. (It shows manufacturers that we're serious and not just looking for free stuff. :) ) Thanks for understanding and your interest in adding more controller support! Sincerely, Sean M. Pappalardo "D.J. Pegasus" Mixxx Developer - Controller Specialist
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