A few words on #faircamp and the future °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°
1. A patch release is coming ~tomorrow, including a small but notable fix for browse/search as well as some translation tweaks.
2. With all @nlnet supported work completed I'm currently evaluating options to fund future developments:
* For one there are big things on the horizon that I believe at this point will still require institutional support to achieve. For this I'll be writing grant applications and see if some work can be funded that way (fingers crossed!)
* Until that is under way however (and these things take time), there's also numerous self-contained plans to pursue, and I'd like to try getting some of these directly funded by you the community if you're up for it. ;) More on that in the coming weeks and through summer probably!
3. For the time being and while I'm working almost
... mehr anzeigenA few words on #faircamp and the future °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°
1. A patch release is coming ~tomorrow, including a small but notable fix for browse/search as well as some translation tweaks.
2. With all @nlnet supported work completed I'm currently evaluating options to fund future developments:
* For one there are big things on the horizon that I believe at this point will still require institutional support to achieve. For this I'll be writing grant applications and see if some work can be funded that way (fingers crossed!)
* Until that is under way however (and these things take time), there's also numerous self-contained plans to pursue, and I'd like to try getting some of these directly funded by you the community if you're up for it. ;) More on that in the coming weeks and through summer probably!
3. For the time being and while I'm working almost exclusively on my own funds (save for donations - cheers everyone for your support!) I'm also investing a few days to design and develop tooling that will greatly help with release communication, and I eventually intend to release that to the public as free software as well! Things are already far enough that the upcoming #faircamp/#hyper8 releases will be assisted by this - attached I'm excited to share some screencaps! More info in this thread: post.lurk.org/@freebliss/11463…
I'm a huge fan of how the Blender team publishes release notes (e.g. https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-4/ - make sure to scroll a bit), likewise Inkscape (e.g. https://inkscape.org/doc/release_notes/1.4/Inkscape_1.4.html) and Krita (e.g.
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