Re: [Traverso-devel] getting closer

[Remon Sijrier]

Hi Nic,

> I've been following the recent progress with a huge amount of relieve. I
> have to admit that I was beginning to feel that the project was doomed if
> you would decide not to contribute anymore. I'm incredibly relieved to see
> that you're still actively pushing it.

I promised you ;-)

But I really do understand your concerns about continued development, another 
active developer(s) would be awesome as I'd really like to also have a role 
as project leader/coordinator, and not only as a developer.
It's not the first time development stalled for some time, though certainly 
this time has been a very long one!
As my day job requires most of my time, development will still be slow, but at 
least I feel like having time and energy again to work on other things. Let's 
hope in the future I'll find another job that pays more for less hours 
work ;-)

> I would say the button in the first-start dialogue falls into the category
> of "less is more", as the system language is a pretty good guess in more
> than 90% of the cases. As for the button in the settings dialogue, the
> Appearance page should be the right place. But I realised how crowded the
> pages are when I tried to add the icon size stuff. I'll have a look at the
> dialogue tonight and make a recommendation.

OK, thanks!

> So am I, my time to help with the coding is very limited at the moment. But
> I'll try to have the manual and the translations ready for the release. I
> don't think it is necessary to release an official rc. Just tell us when
> you're done with your fixes and give us a week or so for some thorough
> testing.

OK, great. There aren't many new to be translated strings, keeping the 
translation up to date requires little time (for the Interface that is, 
probably some more for the manual). 

>
> Anyway, keep it up! And let's hope the new release will make it into the
> April-distributions.

Unlikely I'm afraid, but packagers can allready start creating packages (due 
moving to cmake only) and iron out packaging problems early, so when the 
release is ready it'll be a matter of uploading to the repositories.

Regards,


Remon