On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Sam Powers wrote: > I've got a package, xmms-liveice, which is very, very unstable. The > upstream author has moved on to other projects, and doesn't seem > particularly interested in making the code work better.
Beat him over the head with some of ESR's writings, specifically the part which states that the final responsibility of a free software author is to find an appropriate successor when your own interest has died. <grin> > It's an xmms plugin, written in C. I don't know C, so I can't fix the bugs > myself. How should I go about finding an interested party to get this code > stabalized? Not a lot of hope. Unless there's a C programmer out there who is sufficiently annoyed by the deficiencies to do the work, you've got two basic choices: 1) Learn C and do it yourself, or 2) Pay someone to do it for you. Brutal, but there aren't a lot of alternatives. Maybe someone would take it on as a personal interest learning project, but your chances of getting top-quality from that are pretty slim. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
