From quanta  Tue Jul 15 11:37:05 2008
From: Eric Laffoon <eric () kdewebdev ! org>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:37:05 +0000
To: quanta
Subject: Re: [Quanta] Quanta internal development information
Message-Id: <200807150437.05856.eric () kdewebdev ! org>
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On Monday 14 July 2008 11:12:10 pm Mark A. Taff wrote:
> On Monday 14 July 2008 17:37:40 Eric Laffoon wrote:
> > Early this year Andras was feeling stress from my being behind and from
> > the falling dollar,
>
> Andras isn't the only one getting hit by the falling dollar. :-(
>
> That aside, I am having to work my way through college much more than I had
> hoped.  As a result, I'm also not quite as poor as I had planned for.  So,
> I'm in for $25 for a developer (Andras or otherwise).  I'll drop the check
> in the mail as usual.
>
> Also, it seems I have almost a month off between summer quarter and fall
> quarter.  I'd like to be able to do some hacking, and Quanta seems like a
> prime target.
>
> As a user, I'd *really* like to see a usable Quanta4, even if it is still
> feature-incomplete (so long as we are honest about its state and
> stability), perhaps a long beta cycle or so.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark

Hi Mark,
Thanks for helping out. You're of course welcome to hack on Quanta. Please use 
the developer list for support. According to Andras the new parser is in 
place and much more capable. KDevelop continues to advance. Andras says 
getting a KDE4 replacement for Quanta is several months of coding away. 
That's why this trip is important. Andras and I need to focus on the ground 
work for this to happen. The objective is to sponsor a new developer while 
Andras and I continue to manage and do some code. This means the window for 
setting a release is towards the end of the year.

If all goes according to plan with my business in January I will have made a 
lot of money and business will be slower after the holidays. I should have 
several account managers and a production manager. This means I can look at 
my first real vacation in 20 years... followed up by private hacking trips 
with fellow developers. By this time next year I hope to have several more 
people working on the project, paid and volunteer.

Due to being outside the official KDE releases we will finally be able to take 
on substantial feature improvements once again. Additionally the new webcore 
code makes VPL more accessible than ever. The new Kommander will also make 
for incredibly powerful user extention, more so than ever before. Of course 
KDevelop integration will mean enhanced support for other languages and 
features. I'm personally excited about the next version, more so than I have 
been about the releative creative stagnation of the present version due to 
release constraints over the past two years.


-- 
Eric Laffoon
Project Lead - kdewebdev module
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