Re: [ecasound] ten years since 1.1.4r1!

Sergei Steshenko wrote:
>
> --- 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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Indeed, the features are so robust and the commandline so much cleaner
that others.

Keep up the great work!

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