[RWP] ReaAccess.com needs a webmaster

[Scott Chesworth]

Hey Chris,

All good questions. I'll catch you up on how we've arrived at the
point we're currently at with accessibility to Reaper in brief though,
because most people here will probably be growing tired of the same
old story by now.

ReaAccess started out as a 3 man team. Ivan was a fast and solid
developer from Russia, Jinseng was a power user who'd been using
Reaper since before version 1.0, and I tagged along making ReaAccess
usable in English by rounding off the rough edges of the announcements
and configuration options, as well as suggesting behavioural tweaks to
bring some of Ivan's methods more in line with the things I'd observed
in other DAWs. Nobody at any point was given access to Ivan's code,
which to start with when development was fast and furious didn't
matter much. When I'm inspired about something, I can write
accordingly and be quite persuasive, but even when we were receiving
offers of assistance with development from people with solid
achievements to their name, my campaign to open up the project was met
by a formidible wall, no source code for anybody. Then all of a
sudden, Ivan goes off the radar, which leaves the people using the
plugin in a bit of a tricky position. The last anybody heard from him
directly, ReaAccess 2.0 (with a sweet list of fixes and new features)
should've been with us in September 2011. September came and went, and
obviously people have tried to make contact since, but even the
Russian users seem to be being stonewalled. There have been rumours
about 2.0 being a paid release, vaguer rumours about who Ivan's teamed
up with, but despite my best effort, I haven't been able to get
anything 100% confirmed.

So that brings us to today. Previously, I've had the time, but lacked
the motivation to get a little resource together, partly because with
2.0 looming on the horizon a significant re-write of tutorials
would've almost certainly been necessary too soon after creation, and
partly because of my misgivings with the power imbalance leaving users
stranded. Now, people are taking up the slack and coming up with a new
access method to complement and perhaps eventually replace Ivan's
work, so I've got plenty of motivation, but have absolutely no time.
Grrrr, the British call this sod's law!

That's the short version... situation sucks doesn't it.

Scott


On 2/3/12, Chris Smart <csmart8 at cogeco.ca> wrote:
> At 08:33 AM 2/3/2012, you wrote:
>>I hope you find someone who can handle the webmaster job
> If people are willing to contribute some money, the guys I work
> with who maintain and improve my site are excellent.
> I'm guessing all we need is a little space on a server, and a few
> pages detailing what is available, download links etc. Sounds very
> simple. Just guessing, but $20-30 a month would do it.
>
>>These eventually should  give more access, even if Ivan's
>>ReaAccess Version 2 never arrives.
> Ok, here's a question: Why is Reaaccess a one-man operation, and by
> a non-english speaker at that?
>
> How do we contact this Ivan and where?
>
> I thought the whole reason for Reaper's architecture being so open
> and customizable was to encourage innovation, customization and
> individuation.  In that spirit, we need more people than just one
> single person to learn what is necessary to continue developing
> Reaaccess or other accessibility tweaks.
>
>>I only wish that we could get more bits and pieces of instructions
>>from skilled users, so we can  offer a coherent user's guide to
>>beginners.
> Well, after doing my little BCF2000 guide, all I can say is start
> now. Put some simple sectional headings in a file, make a list of
> what you'd like to cover in the guide, and start rewriting those
> tips you come across in your own words, as you come across
> them.  Patrick's audio editing tips would make a great start for a
> section on that aspect, once fleshed out into paragraphs.
>
> Honestly, 90% of what went into my BCF2000 guide was found on the
> Cakewalk forums, i.e. out in the wider world online, not just in
> our little corner on these lists!
>
> Chris
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