Mirko,
On 3/14/07, Mirko Stocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 18:52:46 Christopher Williams wrote:
> We have no ability to employ full-time developers, nor do
> we really have any donations coming in to support augmentation of our
work.
Have you considered contacting Aptana? Now that they took over RadRails,
they
might be interested in keeping RDT alive.. or IBM should donate something,
I'm sure they don't want to capitulate before Sun and NetBeans!
I haven't contacted Aptana or IBM. Maybe it's because I never approached
them, but I do find it a bit unliley IBM will suddenly decide to support us
- the project has been around for 4 years now.
So, I've decided to pursue a commercial fork of RDT and RadRails.
Certianly
> the aim of the project will be to make a profit, but also to help drive
RDT
> forward so that we are not left behind.
What pricing model do you have in mind? Something like Textmate? I'm a
linux
user so I don't find the idea of buying software very appealing, but if
you
look at Textmate's success, that might actually work on other platforms.
The pricing would be close to Textmate.
So I'm striving to stroke a good balance between the two.
> Clearly, bug fixes would be contributed to RDT. Major new code
> infrastructure would as well. And if the project takes off, I'd like to
> support a more cohesive set of websites/trac/etc for the project.
And you would work on Ruby Red alone or do you plan to 'hire' more devs?
Alone until there was enough profit to "hire" developers. Most likely if it
was going well I'd extend out bounties and contractor type work to the other
developers here. After all, you guys have the experience and knowledge.
Thanks,
Chris
--
http://cwilliams.textdriven.com
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your
opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash
http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV
_______________________________________________
Rubyeclipse-development mailing list
Rubyeclipse-development@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rubyeclipse-development
