Re: Quanta internal development information

Hi all,

 shame on me, I can say. My unread mails just grew and grew and I missed 
this until now. I'm really sorry. (And thanks to Jens who drove my 
attention to it.)

On Tuesday 15 July 2008, Eric Laffoon wrote:
> Hi all,
> I feel I should do an update on various things happening with Quanta.
> I discussed it with Andras and I guess he did a blog which probably
> most people didn't read. 

Well yes, probably. Or I wasn't clear enough. :(

> Early this year Andras was feeling stress from my being behind and
> from the falling dollar, as well as financial concerns at home.

I have to say here that I was never ever angry on Eric or such. I always 
knew his situation and trusted him. So do I now. It just that my life 
was also changed, the financial situation did not help the cause, and 
well, I had to secure my an not only my future. This was a hard choice, 
as it was not a simple job that you give up and go find a new one, but 
there was a friendship, a community and an idea behind it.

> several times what I could presently pay him. He is now doing
> contract programming for another developer on Qt.

It is not secret, I can say that I'm working for KDAB, together with 
many other KDE developers that I admir of. Unfortunately KDAB right now 
does not sponsor Quanta development (it does sponsor other developers to 
work on KDE projects, like kdepim). Maybe we should push Quanta into 
kdepim. ;)

> This year I did quite a bit of programming on Kommander and Andras
> helped. He also got some important ground work done on Quanta.
> Unfortunately as I expected there were some delays with using the
> KDevelop platform. 

Many things went less than ideal with this KDE4 port. The long time for 
getting a KDE 4.0.0 out, the even longer time for KDevelop is one 
factor. The fact that I remained the only developer for Quanta (3.5.x 
series and trunk) and Kommander was another one. And I admit that in 
many case I lost my motivation.

> Nonetheless I'm confident it will prove extremely
> valuable. Andras is also considering helping to sponsor a new
> developer.

That's very true. :) I know what I got from the community. If I can give 
back something, I will do so. 

Regarding coding, well, finding free time between my new job, my family 
and other problems proved to be hard. :( I was working last time on 
Quanta during the KDevelop conference. I will attend aKademy and will 
work on Quanta there as well. I hope we will see some good progress, 
although I know that the final 4 version is still quite far away. What we 
would really need is developers. More than ever. 
 I know this is a user list, but spread the word. Maybe writing an IDE 
is not as sexy job as writing a graphics app, but I can say to you that 
it was in many cases fun. And seeing that users are happy with your work 
is what is very important. Sometimes they are pissed of too, but luckily 
that wasn't the usual case in

Thank again for Eric and thanks for the previous community support. 

Andras

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Quanta Plus developer - http://quanta.kdewebdev.org
K Desktop Environment - http://www.kde.org

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