Hi guys! The non suite is becoming more and more stable those days. We
talked about writing a super cool manual some time ago. I think we
could use something like gitbook (writing in markdown, collaborating in
git; i created an example on my github).
Can those that are interested say "Hi" so that we can organize
ourselves? (I don't even know how many active users are there. Let's
wake up this little community ;D )
Thanks, Nicolò
Il giorno ven 6 mar 2015 alle 21:17, J. Liles <[email protected]> ha
scritto:
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Markku Tavasti <[email protected]>
wrote:
On 02/16/2015 07:54 PM, J. Liles wrote:
Aside from the occasional drive-by-patch, Non is a one man show.
Very impressive work from one man!
Thanks.
* What is your personal preference, would you like to get more people
involved in implementation?
Well, that's a tricky question. Non is a bit extreme in its
philosophy of minimalism and in the free-software world it is nearly
impossible to separate design from execution. So I guess what I'm
saying is that in order to have more people involved in the
development, they would have to be very quirky and obsessive people
who agree with the path I've taken. It's far easier to find someone
willing and able to add features and code to a project than it is to
find someone willing and able to think hard about whether those
features are necessary or what the most efficient way to implement
them is. That's why we end up with so many massive, slow, monolithic,
everything-and-the-kitchen-sink projects.
That being said, it's far from unusual for a free software project to
have a lone developer. In fact, that's perfectly normal.
* Do you have plans/roadmap for future, and are you still interested
in developing non? And do you still have time for it?
Personally I'd like to participate, but reality is that I don't have
time :-(
Yes, I do have loose roadmap. As the years have ticked by, I have
wondered if lightweight software like Non would become irrelevant as
available computing power increased, but it seems that everything
else gets more bloated and slower faster than Moore's Law can
compensate, so for the time being at least I think there's still a
place for Non and its pathological efficiency.
Lately I haven't had much time at all to devote to it, but that's
nothing new either. Free time ebbs and flows. Eventually I'll get
some stuff off my plate and have time to get back into
recording/mixing and working on Non.
