Hi folks, this update is personal, not technical.
I wanted to tell you that the continuous patience I am demanding from you makes me feel very guilty to finish it ASAP. In fact every time someone asks "when?", which happens quite often nowadays, I feel ashamed that I'm unable to give you a precise date. I feel as obliged to finish Freetalk ASAP as I feel obliged to anything which is relevant in real life. Such as helping my friends out when they feel bad, which has happened quite often recently, or as helping my mother with repairing various stuff in her house related to basic equipment (electricity etc.). Freetalk is equal to those in my personal priorities and sometimes I even screwed up real life stuff because I couldn't quit writing code early enough. It is not just a project for me, it is MY project and I feel obliged to finish to for the community as soon as I can. I did not commit code this week yet because I have been feeling like shit and could not get much more than 4 hours of sleep even though I would have had the time to sleep as long as I need to. This might make you consider to have someone else finish it and release it, but I would like to admit that I have been feeling like shit very often for the past months due to many personal issues, and yet I managed to be sort of productive and write very much code. And therefore I feel confident that I can get my feet back on the ground during the next week and cut down lets say 5 of the remaining 10 bugtracker entries. Please believe me that I am trying to do my very best and that the project is very important to me personally. And please do not rush it out before I am confident that all issues have been fixed which would be VERY difficult to fix without breaking backward compatibility to old Freetalk and especially WoT databases. It would suck if the architecture of Freetalk and WoT stayed bad forever because architectural issues were not fixed before the official release. Fortunately there are very few architectural issues left. I have been continuously trying to discard ANY issues which do not fall into that category, there are 10 issues left in the bugtracker, and I will try to get rid of even more which are not absolutely crucial. Notice also that I gave my phone number to toad and if I should disappear from IRC for some days - which I absolutely do not plan to, it could only happen if I run into a bus - he can feel free to call me and ask whats wrong and I can provide instructions on what has to be fixed before release. But please ask me before releasing it =) It is also written down in the bugtracker though. I hope that this mail helped you understand whats up and I hope that the community can forgive me for my totally wrong estimations of when it would be done. Greetings, xor
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