Development

Status

FreeADSP is not being developed at the moment since it will depend on the features offered by the NASPRO framework, which is to become its internal processing engine.

There are already two stub FreeADSP releases available, which do nothing apart from showing a textual user interface, load some external modules and process some futile commands. Right now they're hardly useful even for people interested in development since the next release (0.1.0) will be rewritten from scratch.
Anyway feel free to take a look at them if you have time to lose :-)

Talking about the next release, I won't start working on it until the basic functionalities of the NASPRO framework will be available to everyone, nonetheless you can read a list of features I'd like FreeADSP to have in the About page.

Places of discussion

This website

As you may have already noticed (or maybe not :-P), this is the official FreeADSP website. Its main reason of being, apart from 'advertising the product', is to give interested people an easy and fast way to comment, give feedback, send opinions, share ideas, etc.

I know the only way for this project to become successful is to have a wide audience and an active community, and that's why I chose to follow the path of 'face to face' discussion with people in designing this website. So this is definitively intended to be the place for discussion among users or beetween developers and users.

It's not completed yet (most notably a discussion forum is missing) but anyway it's functional and, after all, it's not that bad!

FreeADSP-devel mailing list

The FreeADSP-devel mailing list is, instead, the place where developers can discuss more technically about FreeADSP development.

This doesn't mean that it's an exclusive club (everyone can subscribe and the list is not moderated), but that it is the place where development is coordinated and things happening in there are probably of low interest for end-users.

Contacts

Furthermore, if you need to privately contact someone working on the project, you can take a look at the Authors page.

Code and releases

Sourceforge.net project page

This project is kindly hosted by Sourceforge.net, which gives to all projects not only a web space, but also a lot of other services and tools.

Regarding FreeADSP, they're all accessible at the FreeADSP Sourceforge.net project page.

This is the ideal place for bug reporting, patch submission and feature requests.

SVN repository

FreeADSP's Subversion (aka SVN) code repository contains the code on which developers are currently working. This means that it is not supposed to be stable, tested, well-behaving, supported and/or documented, it is only suitable for development and testing purposes.

If you choose to give it try, you do it at yourn own risk (legally speaking, it works this way with releases too, but in practice these should be much more tested and less likely to destroy your hard drive).

Instructions on how to access this resource can be found here.

Roadmap

There is no official roadmap yet, and maybe there will never be one.

Release version numbers

FreeADSP release version numbers will follow more or less NASPRO version numbers.

Thus major version number will be increased for drastical changes and/or accomplishment of big tasks.
Odd minor version numbers (eg. x.1.z, x.3.z, etc.) indicate unstable development releases, while even ones are for stable releases (eg. x.0.z, x.2.z, etc.).
Releases with different revision numbers will differ only by bugfixes and little impovements.

This numbering scheme does not apply to FreeADSP 0.0.1 and 0.0.2 releases.