Thanks for the update Xor, everyone is grateful for the work you are doing, please don't think that any pestering about timing implies anything other than gratitude :-)
Ian. On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:36 AM, xor <xor at gmx.li> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > -- Ian Clarke CEO, SenseArray Email: ian at sensearray.com Ph: +1 512 422 3588 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20100822/735f275b/attachment.html>
