I think that is excellent information to put on the wiki so that other may find it in the future.
On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 12:47 PM Sean M. Pappalardo - D.J. Pegasus < spappala...@mixxx.org> wrote: > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Get Mixxx, the #1 Free MP3 DJ Mixing software Today > http://mixxx.org > > > Mixxx-devel mailing list > Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
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