Thomas,
thanks for your honest reply! I fully understand that issue and it's not
good to hear that this happens for such a great project. I saw the same
happen for smaller projects (i.e. PostfixAdmin) where no active
development happened for quite some time too. Even Squirrelmail has a
similar issue, no real update for quite some time and they still use
<font> tags....
I think the reason why Roundcube has so much focus is that it's the only
app in this area - there are some others, but none of these is Open
Source and can be used on own machines.
Did you already try to find sponsors or other developers via announcing
it on the Roundcube homepage? To me it seems to be critical to clearly
communicate what's going on with a project and what's the status.
Otherwise people might have wrong aspirations.
Thanks for what you did so far and good luck with your other project!
Mike
Thomas Bruederli wrote:
There's one simple answer to this question: It just because nobody
really works on the code. When did you see the last commit that closed
a bug?
Second: releasing means testing, cleaning up, packaging, distributing,
writing an announcement, etc. I don't want to do all that stuff every
time I change two lines of code. But this is not the point. The main
reason why we're still stuck with 0.1-rc1 is that there are no active
developers. Unfortunately I hardly have time to work on the project
and the few minutes that are left, I mostly spend with writing answers
to (stupid) requests.
I don't say it's all the other's fault. I seriously underestimated the
meaning of starting an open source project. It's far more work than
just writing some lines of code and copy them on a server.
Sorry for the bad "service" and the disappointing growth of the
project but I had to shift my priorities away from RoundCube and this
situation will remain for the next two years :-(
In other words: everybody is welcome to take over the project lead and
release more often.
~Thomas
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