On 01/08/2013 11:28 AM, a.l.e wrote: > Hi > > If you've been reading this list for a while you must know about it: in > the last few years I got more and more involved in the Scribus community > and, more generally, in the world of free software for graphics. In 2013 > lot of things will be different! A "small revolution" -- for me -- that > follows two unrelated events from the last few months of 2012. > > The first event was Femke's announcement of the device for the LGM 2013: > "Future tools". I must admit that my first reaction has been: "Where do > you see any future tool?". Please, don't tell her. With the time I got > used to it, started liking the idea and even got so far as collecting > thoughts about Future tools for publishing. It's still just a bunch of > wild ideas and all I currently know is: an Epub plugin for Scribus is > not enough for the future of publishing. I wanted to dig further. > > A bit later, towards the end of last year, we got an email from > Christoph announcing the plans for a release candidate of Scribus > 1.5.0. Two things stroke me: > - He plans one full year to get to a release candidate for a development > version (after two and a half years of work on the branch!) > - None of the features I care about were among the tasks to be achieved > until then. > > I started wondering if, with a year of work, a motivated team couldn't > produce something that -- while obviously not being better than Scribus > -- would better meet the publishing needs for many more people. > > Short before the end of last year, I've taken the decision: During the > next few months, I won't do any support nor community work for Scribus. > I won't make sure that on the Mailing List and in the Forums questions > are getting an answer. No checking of the new bug reports each morning. > I won't be testing the new commits in the git branches or the svn trunk. > And I won't keep an eye either on what's happening in the IRC channel. > No, I won't disappear: but I will use those channels for my needs and > won't be there to help other people with their sorrows. > I will certainly finish the tasks I've started (the Epub plugin, the > translation into Italian of the Scribus book, ...), but I want to > reserve much more time for experimenting with new ideas and new > technologies. More details will follow very soon! You're welcome to > follow my adventures on Google+ and on the http://impagina.org/blog/ > (to be created). > I wish you all the best with this. As I was saying some time ago, sometimes radical rather than incremental changes or experiments need to happen to make real progress.
Greg
