Update

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…

Hang in there, folks…

Just a quick update to let you know, after all these months, that the project is still alive!

Please see comments in the following post to get a feeling of what is the current situation like.

http://strawreader.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/news-from-the-development-front-line

This time, instead of promising, we will deliver. (see what I did there?)

A Straw blog

Hi! This blog will contain information about what’s happening around the Straw desktop reader project. If you don’t know Straw, it’s basically a deskop reader (think of what Google Reader does for the web) that runs on top of your GNOME desktop.

A lot of our ideas and relevant development discussions will be posted here. Two other guys, Pawel Paprota and Kalle Persson, will also be contributing to this blog.

If you feel you need to contact us, just email us in our mailing list or log in IRC, #straw channel in irc.freenode.net.