This update is triggered by bornagainpenguin’s comment in the last blog entry where he asks “Straw is dead, isn’t it?”.
Yes, I broke my own promises on delivering the release.
Yes, there is very little development activity.
I don’t want to say that the project is dead even if this is how it looks like to the outside world. Ideas are there, even the code is partly there (I still use Straw as my primary and only news reader – it’s been over a year and a half now I think).
Unfortunately, the time to develop is not there…
See the current vision of the project:
http://live.gnome.org/Straw/NewVision
The Discussion Tracker (sort of a “semantic news reader”) direction is a great and exciting one from development point of view. And I am sure that it would provide very unique features to the users.
It all hits the wall when confronted with the real life – be it jobs, families, universities etc.
At this point I won’t promise anything. The project is not dead, let’s call it a transition period. It’s not just word play – I really want to find the time to develop, it’s just not that easy these days…
June 19, 2009 at 3:48 pm |
Please don’t misunderstand me–I don’t WANT Straw to be dead, it’s just that whatever happened with Ubuntu when they made the switchover to Jaunty has broken the application and without an update there is no way to fix the application so it runs again.
There seems to be some action on certain feeds, but none at all on the rest, and the same feeds work fine in earlier versions of the application and earlier versions of Ubuntu.
I’ve been bumping near daily trying to find a fix, and was hoping one of the developers would see the error report and have a fix for me. To come here and see the comments page filled with nothing but spam just disheartened me beyond belief. I left a message anyway, hoping there was something in the site software that would notify people someone still cared–and there was no response at all for quite some time, hence my posting about Straw being dead.
Again, I don’t WANT Straw to be dead–as far as I know it really is the only truly offline feed reader and I need that desperately on my eeepc, because not everywhere has WiFi.
I’m not asking for new features here, I’m just looking to make what has worked continue to work as it has before.
Thanks again for your time, your response, and most of all for Straw such as it has been!
–bornagainpenguin