[ardour-dev] Just saying 'Hello'

[Jan Depner]

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 07:13 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 08:54 +0000, John Emmas wrote:
> > I just signed up for the Ardour project a few days ago.  After posting a
> > couple of things on the forum I discovered the developers mailing list
> > so I thought I'd pop by & say hello.
> > 
> > I'm still finding my feet and I must admit I'm a bit puzzled by the mailing
> > list.  Is there a way to view "current" threads, apart from looking in the
> > archives?  All these mailing lists seem to work slightly differently.  Some
> > of them have a 'live' list where you can quickly see the currently active
> > threads and some don't.  How does the Ardour mailing list work?
> > Archives & emails only?  Or archives, emails and a live list?
> 
> we don't use the email lists for much development related communication
> any more. as i mentioned on the forum, we do almost everything via IRC,
> which is real-time, immediate and invites discussion. there is arguably
> some loss from this, but the overall benefit has been good. we certainly
> do not try to use the mailing lists like a web forum, which i know tends
> to be common in some more windows-facing communities.
> 
> > Also, I'm based in the UK and I wondered if there are any other active
> > developers in the UK?
> 
> no "active" developers, but quite a few early testers and of course my
> employer (Solid State Logic) is based in Oxford.
> 

    What about Steve Harris?


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