On Fri, 03 Jun 2016 16:19:00 +0000 Mike Blumenkrantz <[email protected]> said:
> With the final E21 release pending, the E22 cycle is just around the > corner. I'll be needing to make some changes to my priorities during this > time due to health issues. > > Originally, the E22 cycle was to focus on rewriting the settings > infrastructure. This is a monumental task, and I would estimate that the > time required for it is 1-2 months of my near full-time attention. > > Unfortunately, due to the amount of time and energy that I've been putting > into Enlightenment development and testing for the E21 release cycle, the > RSI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repetitive_strain_injury) in my hands > and wirsts has gotten significantly worse. It's becoming more difficult to > type and debug, and it's no exaggeration to say that it's literally a > struggle for me to open my hands all the way. I've been in physical therapy > for some time to mitigate the effects so that I could complete this release > cycle and get all of the changes out, but this was not going to be a > long-term solution. > > For the present, I'll be scaling back the time that I spend doing > development in order to focus on my recovery. This will have some impact on > Enlightenment development: > > * A full settings rewrite is unlikely at this time unless other community > members want to shoulder significant portions of the work required > * Bug fixes and my responses to tickets will be considerably less immediate > than people have grown accustomed to > > I plan to prioritize my (limited) time following the release on trying to > resolve reported bugs. Once that quiets down, I'll likely try to work on > improving some UI elements or doing more gadget conversions unless someone > has begun a settings taskforce. > > > It's disappointing to me that I won't be able to effectively achieve the > community-set roadmap for E22 at this time, but the situation is such that > I need to take my physical condition into account for a while. > > Thanks for all your understanding and support, > Mike why don't you focus on code reviews for patches, bug tickets (as you say) that need far more reading/thinking/inspecting than typing. that'd be good and needs doing anyway and should work well with your RSI. (i'll be honest - it's hard to empathize as i've never suffered from RSI despite having banged at a kbd for over 30 yeas... :) i wonder if it's because i actually don't touch type... i always just did what felt nice and that's mostly using only thumbs, index fingers and the occasional next finger along from index - just offering a suggestion to see if it helps?) in the meantime recover. do things that require far more reading that typing. keep the typing down. maybe take the time to learn to draw - artwork maybe. it's far less finger-heavy-stress than typing... and it is fun to create :) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/305295220;132659582;e _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
