Re: [trinity-devel] TDE R14.0.0 release delay

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 Donations have dropped off sharply over the past two years (probably due to the lack of new releases); believe it or not I pull in less than 15% of my total *operating* costs (this does not include the cost of the equipment itself). This is a large donation on my part to the project, in addition to the heavy development I have done on TDE over the past 6 years, and I cannot continue to bleed cash on the required scale just to have a faster upload of packages I don't even use. From what I gather this is the sad state of affairs in many open source projects these days; this is all probably related to global economic issues but I cannot be sure. I am hoping R14 will revitalize the project financially and I can then revisit these decisions, but for now I am constrained by factors outside of my control. TDE will continue to exist (a GIT server is quite cheap), but the future form of this project will be determined by our users in the coming months. They were, but the RPM builds were not ready. I made an administrative decision to release R14 at this time as the source was ready and the Debian/Ubuntu builds were ready. I considered that it would do more damage to both halt development for that length of time and spread out the "release" (thus causing loss of visibility) than it would to simply delay the RPM build availability. While TDE has grown significantly from its early days we are still very small compared to large corporate-sponsored projects like KDE, Gnome, systemd, etc. This means our development process will, by nature, be slower and bumpier than that of the larger projects. Tim