On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine < alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Kunda Loves Scribus wrote: > > > Truly, there are some inspiring examples so far where a project with > > organized structure and a well-planned roadmap have been pretty > victorious > > with their fundraising efforts. I'm thinking of Synfig specifically. > Pitivi > > and Mediagoblin (2 crowdfundings already) have had pretty successful runs > > but I'm not sure how they've been evolving since. > > Synfig is in the "it's complicated" department. Every time they run a > campaign, it's a close call for failure: half the time they are mere > hours away from either failing or succeeding. They do deliver on their > promises, but due to having to pick a feature request to focus on for > the next month of sponsored development they have a problem of > wrapping up and actually releasing all the awesome new features they > have implemented (sounds familiar, eh?). In fact, they made a summer > break for July and August, so that might help. > > Mediagoblin had two campaigns: the one in late 2012 was underfunded by > ca. 25%, the one in 2014 was overfunded by 5%. The first time things > balanced out, because they got more people involved through other > programs. I'm not sure how much progress they've had since April 2014, > when they last posted in the blog, I think someone could ping Chris > about that :) > > Pitivi is still in the process of being funded. Last time I checked (a > month ago) they were half way there or so. They made some rather > important changes anyway, but they rarely report on the progress > which, IMO, is one of the reasons of the slow progress with the > funding (IMO, Synfig, being a bit of a niche product, only manages to > raise funds every time, because they post weekly updates with videos > and release dev builds. Pitivi guys do not provide this kind of > progress visibility, although they do provide static nightly builds) > > Not sure how much useful that info is :) Frankly, I don't exactly > understand what's up with Scribus development. Cezary used to be > hyperactive :), but now he's gone? Alessandro and Klaudia used to work > on usability, no idea what happened to that project: the properties > palette is still a huge mess. A_l_e seems to be working on the epub > exporter which is important for single-sourcing though. > > http://wiki.scribus.net mentions "Latest release: Devel 1.5.0" which > leads to an empty folder on SourceForge. That's confusing. > > http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/1.5.0_(%3D_1.6.0_Alpha_1)_Roadmap lists > pending features that don't look critical at all while delaying > delivery of the release. > > http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus_1.5.0_Release_Schedule mentions > a bunch of features that are due to be extensively tested, but how > that could be done without widely accessible binary builds I have no > foggiest idea. > > Alex > Thanks for your perspective and input, Alex. All your points are noted. There is more complexity than I imagined. Cheers, /Kunda -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20140717/cefe20fe/attachment.html>
