Future of Knowit

Michal Rudolf <mrudolf-W20+MoKGEJdEHWO/[email protected]> Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:28:48 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.devel.knowit,gmane.comp.kde.knowit.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I wanted to state my thoughts about Knowit future. Basically I have to decide 
if I should continue my work on Knowit (or, really, if I should stop not to 
work on Knowit).

Pro:
1. Knowit was my first KDE application and thanks to it I was able to 
participate in KDE development, two aKademys etc. 
2. I know it was useful for some people including me.
3. A lot of new features can be added.
4. Working on new Knowit will be fun.

Con:
1. You cannot make your living developing free applications and I am already  
involved in another free Open Source project and in translating KDE into 
Polish.
2. There are other, more advanced, more actively developed applications that 
can replace Knowit - kdissert, TreeLine, probably more.
3. A lot of missing features cannot be implemented using current design - I 
will have to rewrite almost from scratch.
4. KDE 4 is getting near, but I guess it will get at least half a year to make 
the first release. Therefore, I will have to either rewrite for KDE 3 and 
then spend serious time porting or wait half a year. Probably it is possible 
to develop for KDE 4 right now, but it is a bit too much work for me.

So, looks like each Pro is countered by Con. Or, maybe, it is a tie.

What are your thoughts?
-- 
Michal Rudolf

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