LMMS?

[Eric Hedekar]

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 6:44 AM, Mike Holstein <mikeh789 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Kaj Ailomaa <zequence at mousike.me> wrote:
>
>> **
>> On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:15:30 +0200, Scott Lavender <
>> scottalavender at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Ho Wan Chan <smartboyhw at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all.
>>>
>>> In #ubuntustudio today somebody asked if we should add LMMS to it.
>>>
>>> I agree we need to since it is a crucial part of the system and it takes
>>> only about 10 MB of disk space so...
>>>
>>> BTW I talked to Nicholas Skaggs and the final decision was to dump the
>>> manual partitioning and auto-resize testcases and only remain the entire
>>> disk one along with live session and the forecoming post-installation
>>> testcases.
>>>
>>> Thanks everybody
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Howard Chan (smartboyhw)
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>> I think characterizing this as "a crucial part of the system" might be
>> misrepresenting LMMS as I think Ubuntu Studio is quite functional in
>> numerous use cases.
>>
>> We should also consider how many people are asking for LMMS. If we
>> included every application asked for, we would easily oversize the 4gig
>> image. I have been worried about making everyone download extra megs (oh,
>> won't someone think of the bandwidth) because one person said we should
>> include something.
>>
>> However, I am not opposed to including it. I just want to make sure we
>> evaluate the inclusion on it's own merits, that we are supported a complete
>> work flow (i.e. there are no other applications needed to support getting
>> the task done), and the user demand warrants inclusion.
>>
>> I look forward to other's input.
>>
>> ScottL
>>
>>
>> I think it's a valid addition.
>> I know some people prefer this kind of applications to Qtractor or Ardour.
>> On their homepage they make reference to LMMS being a Linux alternative
>> to FL Studio. In my experience there are FL Studio people, and then there
>> is the other kind.
>> Don't use it myself, but I definitely think it fills a workflow hole for
>> a good portion of people.
>>
>> i found LMMS to be crashy in 10.04... and i havent used it since really.
> if its stable and something that others want added, im OK with that. i
> always thought that even if it worked and was stable, my opinion was that
> it was "toy-ish"... we cant include *everything* and there are some key
> pieces of my workflow that are not installed that i have no issues with
> installing on my own. however, if someone wants to host a meeting, and
> "vote" on the inclusion of LMMS, i'll come and participate, and not vote it
> down, since i have no strong opinions other than it needs to be stable.
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This is certainly not the first discussion we've had about including LMMS,
and it probably won't be the last.  None of the past conversations have
come to a conclusion that it should be included as there are other more
polished tools that complete the same or similar workflow.  LMMS has had
stability issues in the past but maybe it's outgrown these now.  My
personal vote would be to include it in the 'suggested install' section and
leave it off the actual disk.  It's possible that reorganization of the
workflows and meta packages could find a slot where LMMS fits perfectly,
but I don't believe there's a spot it would fill right now.

-Eric Hedekar
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