28 Jul
2019
28 Jul
'19
9:25 a.m.
TDE Devs,
I hesitate to send this to a do-ocracy when I don't have the time
to do it myself but I think this warrants a ping.
I rate myself as a software engineer with an excellent track record
in (proprietary) database managers, AI, and systems software. I've
designed software, lead software teams, and picked up other's failing
projects and literally worked and slept in my office to ship on time.
But I would never have thought that what Tim did was possible. The
solo fork and improvement of TDE was a massive undertaking in which
Tim succeeded brilliantly. Whether or not Tim ever touches TDE again
I have an enormous respect for his courage, talent, and achievement.
But now others have taken up the mantle.
The original TDE infrastructure has been broken in various ways
for a long time. The stable mirrors have been unable to update
for eight months. The trinitydesktop.org domain expires in March
and there is no guarantee that the original TDE infrastucture will
continue to stumble along even that long.
TDE 14.0.7 is currently in PSB. Waiting for 14.0.8 might be too
late. I would like to see TDE 14.0.7, either when it goes stable
or soon thereafter, on community-managed infrastructure.
--Mike
First, thank you for the kind words above. While I have tried my best to
finally free up time to continue working on TDE, and while I use it pretty
much exclusively day after day, I have (sadly) had to bend to the demands
of work and daily life over the past year or so. I am in agreement that
much of the (now out of date) infrastructure should be moved to a new,
smaller server that can be properly managed by the community and am
working to provide as seamless of a handoff as I can for the good of the
TDE project. Rest assured that the domains, etc. will be renewed.
For the curious, a very large chunk of my "computer time" over the past
two years has gone to the OpenPOWER initiative. I have been privileged
enough to work with excellent folks that share my belief that computers
are tools to be controlled by their owners, not DRM boxes and electronic
trackers / leashes, and have had a significant hand in bringing about the
Talos II / Blackbird systems [1] (with a third on the way). You will have
seen quickbuild.io grow ppc64el support and TDE itself is being daily
tested on that architecture, this means that TDE and owner-controlled
computing go hand in hand now as they always have.
Due to my involvement in both projects, I was able to pull some strings at
Integricloud [2] and get a dedicated, powerful server permanently
dedicated to the TDE project. This dedicated box is the server that I am
working with Slavek to port the existing TDE data and functions to; as a
self-contained unit managed by an external cloud provider service
availability and connectivity should be excellent, and the horsepower of
the box is sufficient to even be able to run builds on if desired.
I sincerely hope I will be able to return to this project in the future.
Presently I don't see that happening before 2020, but maybe something will
break in a positive direction that I cannot see yet. Thank you all for
your kind support over the years and here's to TDE's future in the coming
decade!
[1] https://www.raptorcs.com/BB/
[2] https://integricloud.com/