Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] wrote:
The mailing list is definitely active. There is only one developer, Henrik, to my knowledge. It is far from dead. Pretty sure there is code changes at least once a week, often several times a week.
Josh, I agree - the project seems to be quite active and that's great. My comment was that it *looks* dead from a public view. Anyone who does not subscribe to this list would assume, just from looking at the existing Source Forge Site and Hobbit site, that no changes have been made for years. The main "about" page mentions that the latest release was 2005. The Source Forge main project page lists 4.2.0 as released in 2006.
I think Henrik is doing a great job and I'd rather have a developer doing development than PR. I don't blame him if he doesn't want to spend any time on web updates, I'm sure the project consumes more than enough of his free time as it is. And that's fine with me, this isn't a criticism. I still get to use this very nice software. All I meant was that the project *looks* dead from the outside to anyone who is not on this list, so hypothetically if we wanted to grow the user community and maybe attract more developers, it might be a good idea to spend 30 minutes every couple months just posting "a this project is still alive" status message.
Cheers,
Doug Linder