Edward,

Enjoy your sabbatical, explore new paths, rest, get confused, get
inspired, be absent, be here. You have done a lot for this community and
Leo is in good shape. So, thank you and see you after it (and a little
bit meanwhile).

Cheers,

Offray

On 16/10/20 9:49 a. m., Edward K. Ream wrote:
> This post will be pre-writing for a locked, pinned post.
>
> Don't panic: during my sabbatical I'll continue to answer questions
> and fix serious bugs.
>
> Now seems like an excellent time to take a sabbatical break from Leo:
>
> 1. I have been working on Leo for almost 35 years without any extended
> break.
>
> It's time for an extended period of exploration and learning about all
> the nifty new computer technologies. These explorations will likely
> suggests features that will be of use to a wide audience. For example,
> Leo should have better built-in support for rust, go, and other languages.
>
> 2. None of the remaining issues promise to move Leo forward in
> exciting new directions.
>
> Imo, by far the most significant new direction for Leo in the last
> several years has been the leoInteg project.
>
> 3. There a no significant bugs remaining in Leo, and none are likely
> to appear during the sabbatical.
>
> *Summary*
>
> My sabbatical will start when Leo 6.3 b1 goes out the door. That will
> happen a week from today, October 23, or shortly thereafter.
>
> I have been underwhelmed by my own performance over the last several
> years. leoAst.py is the high point, but it does not directly extend
> Leo. Rather, it is an example of /using/ Leo. The low point was all
> the work adding Qt docks and then removing them.
>
> The sabbatical will last t least several months, and one year at the
> longest. Only at the sabbatical's end will I know what comes next. I
> have several plans for the sabbatical, but they are preliminary and I
> won't go into details here.
>
> All comments and questions are welcome here.
>
> Edward
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