On 5/3/25 7:57 AM, Michele Calgaro via tde-devels wrote:
I guess the Mastodon channel helped a bit with this too. We just need more devs or contributors so we can do more in each release. Thanks to everyone involved, devs, contributors, users, translators, mirror mainteiners, mirror providers, anyone :-)
If this slow warming is a reliable trend then more developers will join.
I have been following free/libre software for 25 years or so. Like much in life, fads come and go. Yet I notice many people are tired of the break-neck pace of software development and the way features are introduced that many people do not want. I think when users kick back like they start looking for "simpler" software.
A small team of developers is true for many free/libre projects. The Xfce team is noted for being small and taking their time with polishing releases. I think TDE slowly is getting noticed for a similar approach rather than "let's see what we can break today."