Re: Feature freeze imminent

On 2007-02-22, Sylvain Abélard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Isn't there a way to send you beers or something so we can subtly try
> to get your motivation up ? ;)

You can always send me beer, but it won't help. Ion3 has taken 
far too long (stable Ion2 was released three years ago, 2004-02-07),
and I really need a break from the project. Counting from PWM, 
I've been working on it for the last 8 years, a bit almost every
week. I've said a long time ago, that I will take a long (if not
even permanent) break from Ion after Ion3 has been finished. But
it seems that is not going to happen in the next few years, unless
I simply decide to drop a lot of planned features. I simply have
neither the time nor interest. 

I never wanted Ion to become a major software development project, 
but that's what has happened with Ion3. I'd rather it be just 
research code, and that's where I'll get back into with Ion4, if
I ever start working on it: trying out ideas, instead of polishing
them. But for now, I've got far more pressing research to do, and 
other more interesting, _small_, project ideas to occasionally 
hack on. Ion is too big.

-- 
Tuomo