LC> Are we really that desperate for a new version? I'm afraid so. At last in Brazil, currently situation is becoming alarming at least. I hear more and more people saying that Firebird became "zumbi" project. Firebird 3 release became kind of myth here, and some people even think it will never get released. Remember, most users doesn't follow fb-devel and new releases are the only way they use to find that project is actually active.
As the organizer of the Firebird Developers Day conference, I can say that this situation is also affecting the conference's number of attendees. No new releases = nothing new to talk about. We already had 11 editions of FDD, almost every feature available up to FB 2.5 was already discussed. This year I had to accept some talks that are not direct related to Firebird, to avoid having to repeat old subjects (I already spoke 2 times about FB 3 in past editions, and it is still not released). This affects the number of attendees in a negative way, as well the amount of money collected in the conference to be donated to Foundation. So, IMHO, we need to do whatever needs to be done, but in a way that will not delay FB 3 anymore. I know all of our core developers are working as hard as they can, sorry if I'm putting some pressure, but that's how I'm feeling things here. []s Carlos http://www.firebirdnews.org FireBase - http://www.FireBase.com.br ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
