On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:14:27PM -0400, Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:30:53 -0400 > Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I was just looking at whether to upload noteedit to > > testing-proposed-updates. In the process, I hit the noteedit homepage, > > and discovered that upstream has apparently abruptly ceased development > > and removed his web page because of a potential possible future port of > > Finale to Linux. > > Huh? Are you serious? I'm surprised at this because: > > 1. I haven't heard anything about Coda saying this. Certainly if they > were indicating they'd be porting Finale to Linux, you'd expect a lot > of discussion about it on linux-audio-user; there's been none. The last > I read on this subject was from July 8, when one regular there wrote:
Okay. I avoided stating my personal opinion, but here it is: I think upstream is tired of the project and just using this as an excuse to shut it down. If you go to the webpage, it contains a single sentence stating that it is shut down due to a port of Finale, and a link to a long discussion of the possibility of asking Coda to port Finale to Linux, which appeared (from what I could see) to go nowhere. If this is enough to make him shut the project down, I think that either external concerns (ie, real life) or other projects are the real reason, because, as you said, his stated reason doesn't make sense. > > If someone wants to step up and take over Debian *and upstream* > > maintainence for noteedit, please let me know in the near future; if > > there are users who really need noteedit, please let me know. If I > > don't hear from either group in the "near" future, I will file a bug > > against ftp.debian.org requesting the noteedit be removed from both > > unstable and sarge. > > You might wanna mention this on linux-audio-users. I say this because > there are a lot of AGNULA/Demudi people out there who aren't subscribed > to debian-user and who might care about this, have suggestions, be willing > to jump in as maintainer, or make 3rd party .debs available. Just a > thought. Ok, I'll see about doing that. Daniel -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------\ | He was the kind of man who can use | | the word "personnel" and mean it. | | -- Terry Pratchett, _The Light Fantastic_ | \---------------------- A duck! -- http://www.python.org ---------------------/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
