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Subject: Re: [Quanta] Quanta internal development information
From: Eric Laffoon <eric () kdewebdev ! org>
Date: 2008-07-15 11:37:05
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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