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Hi all,

 shame on me, I can say. My unread mails just grew and grew and I missed=20
this until now. I'm really sorry. (And thanks to Jens who drove my=20
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.=20

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=20
knew his situation and trusted him. So do I now. It just that my life=20
was also changed, the financial situation did not help the cause, and=20
well, I had to secure my an not only my future. This was a hard choice,=20
as it was not a simple job that you give up and go find a new one, but=20
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=20
many other KDE developers that I admir of. Unfortunately KDAB right now=20
does not sponsor Quanta development (it does sponsor other developers to=20
work on KDE projects, like kdepim). Maybe we should push Quanta into=20
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.=20

Many things went less than ideal with this KDE4 port. The long time for=20
getting a KDE 4.0.0 out, the even longer time for KDevelop is one=20
factor. The fact that I remained the only developer for Quanta (3.5.x=20
series and trunk) and Kommander was another one. And I admit that in=20
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=20
back something, I will do so.=20

Regarding coding, well, finding free time between my new job, my family=20
and other problems proved to be hard. :( I was working last time on=20
Quanta during the KDevelop conference. I will attend aKademy and will=20
work on Quanta there as well. I hope we will see some good progress,=20
although I know that the final 4 version is still quite far away. What we=20
would really need is developers. More than ever.=20
 I know this is a user list, but spread the word. Maybe writing an IDE=20
is not as sexy job as writing a graphics app, but I can say to you that=20
it was in many cases fun. And seeing that users are happy with your work=20
is what is very important. Sometimes they are pissed of too, but luckily=20
that wasn't the usual case in

Thank again for Eric and thanks for the previous community support.=20

Andras

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

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