From: Raphael Bauduin <raphael.bauduin@...>
Date: 2003-10-06T21:21:31+09:00
Subject: Re: FreeRide

If this is the new location of www.rubyide.org, a redirection might be
useful (I found several links to rubyide.org, and initially thought it was
another project than FreeRIDE).

Raph


Curt Hibbs wrote:

> Carl Youngblood wrote:
>>
>> Is it just my faulty perception or does the momentum behind FreeRIDE
>> seem to have petered out?  I haven't heard about it for months.
> 
> No, the FreeRIDE project is still very much alive.
> 
> As with all open source projects, visible progress depends on the
> available time that its volunteers have to give. With larger projects the
> slower times are masked because some developers are in "high-activity"
> mode while time of others is completely consumed by other areas of their
> lives.
> 
> The FreeRIDE project has generated a lot of interest, but has only three
> or four active contributors (of which Rich Kilmer and Laurent Julliard
> have done the bulk of the work). So, when we all hit our "slow times"
> simultaneously, it might look like the momentum has petered out -- but in
> this case, let's just view it as a momentary rest.  :-)
> 
> There have been a lot of bug fixes to FreeRIDE since its last release, so
> it is certainly worth getting the latest code from cvs.
> 
> Before we do our next release, I want to get the debugger working under
> Windows (it works on Linux), but I'm still having trouble finding time to
> work on it. You probably read Rich Kilmer's response already -- he plans
> to add real project management support next. And Hal Fulton is planning to
> add support for refactoring and, I believe, he is giving a talk on it at
> this year's Ruby Conference.
> 
> And, as always, if we can get more people interested in helping out with
> the
> FreeRIDE development, the progress will be much faster!  :-)
> 
> Curt