[PlanetCCRMA] Hexter not available for Fedora 35

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On 12/28/21 4:31 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On 12/28/21 2:14 PM, Yoann LE BARS wrote:
>>
>> Hello, everybody out there!
>>
>>      I have installed Fedora 35 and Planet CCRMA (and Yann COLLET’s 
>> Audinux), and I cannot find Hexter (http://smbolton.com/hexter.html). 
>> It seems to me it used to be in Planet CCRMA, am I wrong?
...
> It moved to Fedora at some point but I do not find recent builds. The 
> last build I see is:
> 
> hexter-dssi-1.1.0-4.fc34 from 2021-01-30
> 
> So, maybe it was orphaned. I don't know why there is no build for 35...

See email forwarded below, this is probably why... Maybe other packages 
will also disappear if nobody steps up to maintain them. I have not 
checked the list... :-(

-- Fernando


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	Stepping down as Fedora Jam maintainer
Date: 	Sat, 10 Apr 2021 06:39:54 -0700
From: 	Erich Eickmeyer <erich at ericheickmeyer.com>
Reply-To: 	Development discussions related to Fedora 
<devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
To: 	Development discussions related to Fedora 
<devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>



Hello all,

A little over a year ago, I came to the Fedora project to revive and 
modernize the Fedora Jam project. I have successfully done that. My 
vision was that it would be a great way to help develop and test the 
most recent advancements in Linux audio.

Unfortunately, or fortunately, life has a way of changing for the good 
or the bad. Back in November, I was offered an opportunity that I could 
not pass-up: becoming the User Experience Director for the Kubuntu Focus 
brand of laptops made by MindShareManagement. Since then, I have become 
an integral member of that team, directly reporting to the CTO, CEO, and 
President, working directly with the PR and Sales and Marketing 
directors. It has been a blast, and is a project that works directly 
with Ubuntu and Debian to create, as we put it, the "Ultimate Linux 
Laptop". As a MOTU for Ubuntu, this was a perfect fit.

I didn't come here to be a shill for Ubuntu or to advertise my work, but 
rather, to illustrate the level of involvement. It has taken up a 
majority of my time, and my work with Ubuntu Studio is directly involved 
with the project as well as both Ubuntu Studio and the Kubuntu Focus 
laptop have similar synergies.

Because of the amount of time involved in these projects, something has 
to give. For that reason, I must step-down as Fedora Jam maintainer. My 
plan is to continue to maintain certain packages within Fedora (which, 
admittedly, I've been slacking on), but I am orphaning the vast majority 
of my packages. Here's the list:

Add64
dssi
dssi-vst
fedora-jam-backgrounds*
fedora-jam-kde-theme*
fluidsynth
fluidsynth-dssi
freqtweak
gnome-guitar
harmony-seq
hexter-dssi
jackctlmmc
jmeters
libinstpatch
lv2-c++-tools
lv2-fabla
lv2-ll-plugins
lv2-mdaEPiano
lv2-newtonator
lv2-sorcer
lv2-swh-plugins
lv2-vocoder-plugins
meterbridge
non-daw
portmidi
radium-compressor
realTimeConfigQuickScan
whysynth-dssi
xsynth-dssi

*These packages have pagure repos which I'd be happy to hand over to 
whoever takes these.

I do want to thank everyone for the opportunity, including Matthew 
Miller, Ben Cotton, Neal Gompa, and many others that helped me revive 
this project. I'm sad to let it go, and I'm not sure what's going to 
happen to it, but I hope someone who has a passion for the latest 
technologies in Linux Audio and music production can take it over.

Thanks,
Erich Eickmeyer