Maintainers for some of my projects wanted

Nick Schermer nickschermer at gmail.com
Fri Dec 9 07:47:48 CET 2011


On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
> On 12/08/2011 02:39 PM, Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
>>
>> I am looking for a new maintainer for some of the open source projects
>> I started over the last couple of years. Due to taking a full-time
>> position as a software engineer, I will have less spare time to hack in
>> the near future than I had while being a student. I will continue
>> contributing to Xfce but I would like to focus on core development
>> (thunar, tumbler, garcon etc.).
>
> [...]
>
>> xfce4-mixer is particularly interesting, I think. It’s code base is of
>> medium size and it lacks integration with notification daemons, key
>> bindings for muting and altering the volume of a selected channel.
>> Also, the per-channel widgets could be arranged in better ways than
>> they are right now. PulseAudio support has been requested several times
>> but that is an entirely different story. xfce4-mixer is mainly intended
>> as a mixer for GStreamer. A PulseAudio mixer would better be written
>> from scratch. But if anyone is up for the task - why not!
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm interested in xfce4-mixer since I like working with multimedia hardware
> interfaces/libraries and I also like programming with the "G" libraries
> (including GStreamer).
>
> To be honest though, I have no idea how much work is involved in maintaining
> it and I fear I might not have enough time to do so properly.  Can you
> elaborate on the type and quantity of work you spend (or feel should be
> spent) in maintaining it besides the tasks you mentioned needed attention?

You can for a start look at the open bugs and requests:
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/buglist.cgi?resolution=---;product=Xfce4-mixer

Nick


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