Hi Gabriel,
Thanks for taking the time to chime in here. I really appreciate your
open and clear statement about the status of the project. It helps me a
lot here, since many seem not to get where I come from with this issue,
which, by the way, was a recommendation on IRC #debian-next and not my
first idea on the list how to solve this.
I hope you know that it never was my intension to offend anybody. I
really appreciate the hard work all contributors give to their projects
because I know how hard it can be. Thanks for your efforts to contribute
to audio software on Linux. And thanks again for your open and unbiased
support on this.
Greetings from Berlin!
On 04/08/2017 11:16 PM, Gabriel Beddingfield wrote:
Hi all,
I'm the developer of Composite. In my humble opinion, Composite should
never have been added to Debian. It was not ready. While it did offer a
little bit of useful functionality (the hydrogen drumkits as an LV2
plugin), it overall was the beginnings of a new project, and Debian
added it before it even developed a character of its own. It was never
intended that it would detract from or cause confusion with the original
Hydrogen project. The only reason why it looks like an old version of
Hydrogen is that I had not yet gotten around to a useable replacement
UI. And while I would love to go back to work on the project, for all
intents and purposes it's dead. I don't have time to work on it.
And as compiler changes and libraries move forward, I don't think the
Debian devs should bother maintaining this package.
Whoever added it to Debian I'm sure had good intentions, perhaps
thinking it would help the project. However, it did not help the project.
I support the removal of Composite from Debian.
-gabe
