On 8/9/07, till <klimpong@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/9/07, Michael Baierl <mail@mbaierl.com> wrote:
> (...)
> That brings up another question to the core developers - did you ever
> try to get sponsoring from companies? I know that one hosting company in
> Germany is using Roundcube as their mail system, maybe they sponsor one
> (or a half) developer?

Basically all the work I got done on devel-vnext is sponsored by
macbay (0) (and my youth :D). The circumstances were very good because
I was able to work on RoundCube during working hours and I am allowed
to make all changes public. I think the future this will also be the
case as I make modifications, I will be able to release them.

But as Thomas has pointed out we lack man power in general. We have a
couple people with SVN, but most of them seem to be unavailable.

Having said this, I am not implying that we want other people to
develop so we can take a break. IMHO there are also simple things
missing - e.g. people to review patches and commit them etc.. We have
a couple waiting, but we could not get to yet.

We are also trying to progress through the nightlies (1) etc. so
people can test fresh code more easily and give feedback etc. - in the
end in order to be able to release more often.

Cheers,
Till

0, http://www.macbay.de
1, http://nightly.roundcube.net/
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