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ten years since 1.1.4r1!
by Kai Vehmanen
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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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Ecasound-list mailing list Ecasound-list@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecasound-list |
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Re: ten years since 1.1.4r1!
by Jason Galyon-3
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Sergei Steshenko wrote:
> > --- On Tue, 6/30/09, Kai Vehmanen <kvehmanen@...> wrote: > > >> From: Kai Vehmanen <kvehmanen@...> >> Subject: [ecasound] ten years since 1.1.4r1! >> To: ecasound-list@... >> 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. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Ecasound-list mailing list > Ecasound-list@... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecasound-list > that others. Keep up the great work! -- Jason Galyon Silver Screen Tele-Reality, Inc. http://www.sister.tv | http://www.videocarlot.tv Phone: 972-855-3500 | Fax: 413-778-2146 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Ecasound-list mailing list Ecasound-list@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecasound-list |
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Re: ten years since 1.1.4r1!
by Remi R
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Happy birthday Ecasound. Your soft is very very very helpfull. With It next week, I'll stream (with ices) Live conferences and Live music. With a eeepc, and common USB Zoom handy recorder. I will stream ands record in flac just with a Ecasound command line. That's the Swiss-kinfe for Sound Linux DAW. It's really the alternative for poeple who don't need (want) Jack server. I discovered your software 3 or 4 years ago. As it works well, I discovered Linux. As it host Ladspa plugin, I decided to develop my own LADSPA Plugins (sourceforge CSA) I want to buy a ECASOUND T-shirt !!! Thank a lot ! Rémi+ Sorry for my bad english. > Message du 01/07/09 16:37 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Ecasound-list mailing list Ecasound-list@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecasound-list |
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Re: ten years since 1.1.4r1!
by linux media 4
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Kai Vehmanen wrote:
> 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 The best compliment I can offer is the fact that I can write an ecasound based project for around 5 years now. I don't think I could have been able to do this unless ecasound was so versatile, stable and full-featured. I can't recall anything that I haven't been able to do with it. I'm more of a musician than a technician, and I'm not a C programmer. But there's so many hidden gems in ecasound's many features that I think anyone with an imagination could spend a lifetime writing ecasound based programs, front-ends and the like. Thanks for the great programs and all the work you've put into it. Rocco ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Ecasound-list mailing list Ecasound-list@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecasound-list |
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AUTHORS-file (was: Re: ten years since 1.1.4r1!)
by Kai Vehmanen
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Hi all,
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Kai Vehmanen wrote: > 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 thanks to a private mail I got after the ten year post, I now realized that the AUTHORS file is not quite up-to-date. Starting from the 2.2.1 release, I've been tracking contributors in the release notes (as the release notes get much more publicity than the AUTHORS file -> posted to linux-audio-annonce list and usually end up in lwn.net weekly news). I kicked this off with: "Vanity Appeal :)" http://eca.cx/ecasound-list/2003/01/0048.html The smiley is still in order, as I do think giving credits properly is a critical thing for any open-source project. We all benefit from contributions (not just patches, but all kind of help that pushes the project forward), so the least we can do is to list the people who have helped. So I've now collected list of all contributors (altogether 90 people!) from the release notes (since 2.2.1) and added them to the AUTHORS file. This way the full list of people gets also distributed along with the release tarballs (the original release notes are not included). So here's a verbatim copy of the added segment (also online at http://eca.cx/ecasound/authors.php and committed to the git repo): --cut-- Contributions - Patches, Bug Hunting and Feature Proposals ========================================================== Starting from 2.2.1 release (in Feb/2003), contributors have been listed in the release notes. For all past releases notes, see: - http://eca.cx/relnotes/ Below is a list of all contributors to 2.2.1 and beyond, collected from the published releases notes, and listed in the order they appear in the release notes: Junichi Uekawa Kai Vehmanen Janne Halttunen Antti Boman William Goldsmith Oliver Thuns Mario Lang Michael Hellwig Janno Liivak Raoul Megelas Jan Stary Daniel Kruszyna Jeremy Hall Vegard Lima Carsten Bauer Ismail Donmez Lars Henrik Mai Stephan Niemz Al Oemens Tommi Uimonen Hirendra Hindocha Stefan Bundt Dave Phillips Jan Weil Mark de Wever Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano Michael Ewe Eric Dantan Rzewnicki Pierre Lorenzon Jesse Chappell Sean Bolton Adam Linson Paul Winkler Didier Bellamy Manfred Berndtgen Stéphane Letz Paul Marquardt kito -at- gentoo-org jcwjcw -at- qwest-net Vitaly Belostotsky Steve Harris Tim Blechmann Aaron Heller Kamil Wencel Julien Claassen Erik de Castro Lopo Frederik Eaton Philippe Schelté aka Dubphil Julian Dobson Alexey Shchepin Brad Fuller Peter Lutek Stuart Allie Jeffrey Cunningham Kyle Kirkland Olivier Guilyardi Jack O'Quin Pierre Lorenzon Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas Pedro Antonio Fructuoso Merino Arieh Skliarouk Tom Rosenfeld Valery -at- vslash -dot com Markus Grabner Michael Willoughby Rocco <linuxmedia -at- netscape-net> Dave Serls Stephen Stocker Aaron Heller Chris Head Zrajm Akfohg Florian Ladstaedter Koen <kbr -at- patat-org> Kurt Konolige Brad Bowman Joel Roth Martin Michlmayr Joe Planisky Rémi Rouaud Etienne Deleflie Klaus Schulz Keith Creasy Cyril Brulebois Fabian Groffen Andrew Lees Sergei Steshenko Alexis Ballier Avuton Olrich Dominic Sacré Erik Nomitch --cut-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Ecasound-list mailing list Ecasound-list@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecasound-list |
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