Re: [ecasound] ten years since 1.1.4r1!

--- On Tue, 6/30/09, Kai Vehmanen <kvehmanen@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> From: Kai Vehmanen <kvehmanen@email-addr-hidden>
> Subject: [ecasound] ten years since 1.1.4r1!
> To: ecasound-list@email-addr-hidden
> Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 4:14 PM
> Hello all,
>
> as of today, it's exactly ten years since the first release
> of Ecasound
> under GPL!
>
> I had been dabbling with the codebase already since 1997.
> But for the
> first few years, I was just using the software myself, i.e.
> just
> scratching my own itch. The thought of releasing the app
> for others to
> use, occured to me only in 1999. The first public mention
> of the app was
> on linux-sound mailing list:
>
>   http://marc.info/?l=linux-sound&m=92851317730044&w=4
>
> I immediately got a few response mails from interested
> people (Dan Boger,
> someone with a mail alias '17.hzV.tRL.478', Michael Stutz
> and Jeremy
> Hall), asking where to get a tarball.
>
> This further encouraged me to license the app under GPL,
> and put a release
> out, which I did a few weeks later. Unfortunately, as often
> happens, the
> very first r1 release (out on 30th June 1999), had some
> rather severe
> bugs, so 1.1.5r2 followed on the next day (July 1st). First
> announcement
> mail was sent about 1.1.5r2 to linux-sound list:
>
>   http://marc.info/?l=linux-sound&m=93079086212704&w=4
>
> The rest of the history is already well documented in the
> archives of this
> list, and most importantly, in the git (formerly CVS)
> commit history.
>
> I was aiming to release 2.7.0 today to mark the
> anniversary, but I simply
> ran out of time, and thus decided to just write this mail
> instead.
>
> One reason, why I wanted to still write a mail today, was
> to highlight the
> AUTHORS file:
>    http://eca.cx/ecasound/authors.php
>
> In other words I want to thank the long list of people who
> have
> contributed to Ecasound during the years! Aside people
> already mentioned
> in AUTHORS, a significant source of contributions has
> always been this
> list. So thanks everybody!
>
> And to wrap up the mail, here's some random 10-year
> statistics:
>
> 1. Total of 41 official releases (1.1.4r1 -> 2.6.0)
>     (-> avg of 4 releases per year)
> 2. Total of 6689 mails to ecasound-list (Aug/1999 onwards)
>     (-> avg of ~56 mails per month)
> 3. Total of 2118 commits to the codebase (Jan/2000
> onwards)
>     (-> avg of ~19 commits per month)
>
> Now back to work with 2.7.0. Next anniversary update then
> maybe in June
> 2019...!
>
> Br,
> Kai
>
>

Thanks for the great app.

And I often catch myself thinking that 'eacsound' should become THE basis
of unified soundserver for UNIXish systems.

Because it (mostly, for me) works.

Regards,
  Sergei.

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