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Mission and expectations

This software project is committed to Open Source that is you as a visitor, collaborator, simple user... will always be guaranteed access to the source code. You may fork this repository, change the code, take bits to use in another project or just run it. It is important to realize that source code is THE value of this software. Artifacts are considered as accessory. This is NOT free software as in free lunch and when you run it you are asked to collaborate to it to the best of your abilities.

This software is provided in the hope it will be useful. Its main goal is to provide a Software Defined Radio platform that is is committed to:

• be efficient: code should be written to be conservative on CPU resources it is not because the CPU power of machines constantly increase that this power should be wasted
• have fast paced instrumental graphics. Thanks to OpenGL spectrum, signal graphics and images can be rendered responsively
• give power to the user by letting him/her control all aspects of the DSP processing chain. But as you know with greater power comes greater responsibility therefore it is expected that you already have some experience with SDR applications and digital signal processing in general
• be an experimental platform for amateur radio or anyone interested in matters related to electromagnetism or communication based on electromagnetic waves. It is in no way intended for production moreover mission critical usage.

Guidelines to report issues

As the principal author, owner and maintainer of this software I spend a good part of my free time working on this software, and I do it (mostly) for fun and learning new things. But one thing that I can tell you is no fun, is losing time hunting bugs that I cannot reproduce.

Therefore I would like to enforce the following guidelines.

Reporting compilation issues

Compilation instructions are given in a particular reference context: Ubuntu 18.04 with prerequisites installed. It is very unlikely that problems occurring in this context will reach the master branch. However as this is source code I (as the Maintainer) cannot prevent you (as the User or Collaborator) from trying to compile it in a different context. However in this case you must show evidence that something is wrong in the code. Throwing out the compiler output is clearly not sufficient.

Reporting run time issues

I (as an Author and Maintainer) have more fun in developing new things, improving existing things or fixing defective things than hunting bugs. Therefore I ask you (as a User or Collaborator) to take the role of first level support. It means you have to help me and not the opposite: you have to help me understand the problem or what you think is a problem.