Re: [Sv1-devel] A few questions ...

[Chris C. <ca...@al...>]

On Sun, 9 Apr 2017, at 23:02, Ólafur Egilsson wrote:
> 1. Where is the best place to ask SV related (not vamp) dev questions?

This list is not a bad place. It doesn't get much traffic at the moment,
but your questions should be noticed.

> 2. Is there a build instructions somewhere (apart from INSTALL.txt).

For Windows there is this wiki page:
https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/sonic-visualiser/wiki/WindowsBuild30

I've also just updated the INSTALL file in the repo with a few more
notes. I'm intending to make an updated source tarball with more details
in this file than the 3.0.2 one had, so please do let me know what other
obstacles you have run into.

> 3. Do you take code submissions from the community (for bugs and
> features)?

Yes.

> If so, do we have a formal/ideal protocol for such submissions
> (discussion, code style, how to submit, etc?)

Discussion here or in a tracker issue (on SourceForge for example) is
good. Code style is primarily follow what exists already (camel case,
4-char indentation, avoid tab characters, opening brace at end of
leading line etc).

As for submissions, I'd say in the first instance send patches (here or
off-list). Then we can work out repo access.

> (I do have a few lines of code submission related to playback which makes
> my life much easier when transcribing a solo.  I think it might be useful
> for others).

Sounds good.

> 4. Has there been any discussion on moving to Git

I would like to get the repo (at the very least) mirrored on github,
primarily because at the moment the situation about where to file and
discuss issues is so unfriendly to new contributors. There are obstacles
to do with the heavy use SV makes of Mercurial subrepositories. I've
been looking into various options for dealing with that, but that work
is still pending.


Chris