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Hi everyone,
Can someone please step up to be a maintainer and save this great community of artists, so they have a place to share their wonderful presets.
I love the app and community everyone is so helpful and the artists are willing to make presets upon request. I have had one made for me and it is great.
Thank you for reading this.
Pamk64
I second that motion
Just to clear things up, if SINE dies, the presets will be saved. Everything will end up on my site, along with a modified version of the app that can download presets from there. No community, no uploads, no dedicated website basically.
Right now I have a maintainer for the community but still no one who can actually keep the apps updated.
mis there anything I/we can do to help find someone who can do this?
Yay! we have a maintainer now all we need is someone to keep the app updated. Calling all app developers/programmers we need you to keep the Sine app updated.
Just to clear things up, if SINE dies, the presets will be saved. Everything will end up on my site, along with a modified version of the app that can download presets from there. No community, no uploads, no dedicated website basically.
Right now I have a maintainer for the community but still no one who can actually keep the apps updated.
praying
I am not an Android developer though I got some some apps developed a few years ago. How much programming effort does it take to maintain the app? Is it as simple as uploading/replacing a preset file? Or is the app replaced with a new version each time a preset is added/modified/deleted?
I have offered to help with my limited skills (I can't make a preset and I can't do android programming).
A suggestion I made long back may also be worth considering : Most presets published here don't contain elaborate text describing the intended benefits. This leaves the populace in dark or gray. So the usability of the preset reduces. So less users and you know what comes next.
All the best. Sine needs to live forever. And I am here to help with my limited abilities.
The first thing I'd need is to update the android app so that it uses the newest APIs. There's been some reports of issues with power saving and android 8 ignoring wakelocks. I looked into it and I was never able to fix it (or reproduce it on my device).
Once that's done, I want to unify the PC version and the webapp, a full rewrite using Electron (the android version will keep using java, but it will be updated so that it has the same sound as the PC version). This is especially important for mac users, since there's been reports of the mac version not working properly on newer versions of macos. Apple has always done its best to make cross platform development as shitty as possible, and frankly I just gave up: if someone can fix it, good, otherwise macos can go fuck itself.
Finally, the SINE preset format itself should be improved: it needs better preset descriptions as mthakurr said, support for different types of noise, and maybe more.
Right now SINE just doesn't have enough users compared to some of my other projects to justify the enormous effort of basically redoing the whole project using more modern technologies. If someone wants to do it, I will be 100% available to them and help them do it. The project is fully open source so anyone can try.
So someone who is good with Android including its latest versions is what is being sought or we get a lot or we try to get a lot more people interested SINE enough so to justify the work you would need to put in?
My question maybe offencive but I don't mean it to be offencive I'm just curious and am going to some other forums to see if I can find some help from people there to help here.
The android version needs an update to make sure that everything works and looks pretty on newer versions of the OS (this will probably require some wakelock magic when increasing the API level to 26 or newer). Right now it works though.
The macos version desperately needs an update because it barely works.
Feel free to ask around if you want, no offense taken.
I'm not the best at coding, however anything I can contribute for software which is covered under the GNU GPL License is worthy of my time. I totally dig the simplicity of the interface and the platforms I am running it under:
A LG-70 Droid phone with KitKit
and a notebook r unning Trisquel GNU/Linux 8.0 Lite Edition.
thank you, I hope this works out.
Thank you atropine!
Perhaps you can contact the devs and see and see if you are what they're looking for and that this app needs.
I'm also very happy to see in your introduction that this little app has helped you I know it has certainly helped me and a few others some who talk about it and some who don't.
It is my hope that you will find this app to be worthy of your time as well as continue to be helping you out while you help others truly a reward in itself.
Atropine please contact me if you want to give it a try. info@fdossena.com
Atropine please contact me if you want to give it a try. info@fdossena.com
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