From site Ardour you learn news again after a month of complete silence and are not just good news unfortunately. During this period Carl Hetherington and Paul Davis have been working hard on the project and their effort has produced interesting results as the resolution of many small bugs, a new design of the internal signal flow is not visible to Jack allowing the correct implementation of the subgroups and send a correct model of itself, and a hope: a third alpha release by the summer.
And until only good news here, but everyone knows that a free and opensource project as there's always bad when it comes to support finanziario, infatti da quando SAE Institute ha tolto il proprio contributo ad Ardour l'intero progetto si affida esclusivamente alle donazioni degli utenti e il magro incasso di quest'ultimo mese ha indotto Paul Davis a discutere la questione pubblicamente con un comunicato che potete leggere qui in forma originale. Paul Davis scrive che se non fosse stato per una singola donazione di 1000 $, questo mese si sarebbe ben lontani dall'obiettivo mensile di 4500 $ donati. Il capo progetto di Ardour prosegue con una frase preocupante in cui sostiene che "Ardour continuerà in qualche modo anche se lui dovesse trovare un altro lavoro" e che un'utenza come quella di Ardour (15000 downloads per MacOSX, and 6000 downloads of the source code) should be able to pay the 'full time employment of a North American developer and occasional payments to other developers. According to Paul Davis
$ 4500 less than half of the money received each month by a programmer senior U.S. military and that his family situation does not help (wife and three children).
Ardour is certainly the most important project audio on GNU / Linux and any slowdown in its development would correspond to a slow development of the whole community Linux audio.
If you have not contributed to the project considered the idea of \u200b\u200ba donation.
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