On the feasibility and long term maintainability of Open Source Software created in spare time and the effect on the everyday life of a programmer

easter-at-midnight.eml

Hi,

Thanks for your mail, since you're one of many people asking this
here are the facts about me not having released an update yet:

- I'm aware of the upstream release and the breakage of my software
- I'm working on software like the one you asked about in my spare time
- I have limited spare time since I'm just one person
- I've spent extensive time on the software (see master branch)
  but my limited sparetime still ran out eventually
- No amount of money can buy me more spare time as I have a family
  life and a day job
- I've used up approx. 2 hours this week to answer questions about
  this issue, wasting spare time I could have worked on the release
- I don't know when a release will happen since I don't know when
  I have enough spare time again to finish the release
- You will have to wait for the release like everyone else if you
  choose to wait
- You are free to stop using the software if it doesn't work for you
  and/or you can't wait

That's it, just so you know the current status.

Jannis