[READ FIRST] Current project status

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So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish

18/10/2021

👋 Hey there! It has been 3 years since eDEX's initial 1.0 release. Since then, 16 updates have been released with the help of 46 contributors, and they have been downloaded about 400 000 times (:exploding_head:!).

Last year I opened this issue to gather support (both moral and financial) to fund maintenance, as I was a student with little resources for a project of this size. Thanks to sponsorships and the generous donations of some of you I've been able to keep the project on life support.

This summer I dropped out to become a full-time software eng, and I feel it is time to re-assess the situation.

eDEX-UI will now be archived as I will move on to other projects.

The codebase has been in dire need of a fresh refactoring for some time now, and considering the limited usefulness of the software (I like to think of it as a functional art project), I think this is the best decision to go forward.

I want to thank every person who has ever contributed to, starred, liked, tried out, crashed and bugsquashed eDEX-UI. We had a really good run and lots of fun.

Keep cool :v: -G

P.S: you can follow me around on Twitter if you want to hear about new stuff.

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Previous versions

Updated 22/02/2021 Thanks to GitHub Sponsors and the Bytes sponsorship, I've been able to upgrade the project from unmaintained to maintenance mode. What this means:

• More frequent patch updates
• Issues will get fixed if possible on the current project architecture
• No new features still, and no project rewrite in the foreseeable future
• Project will be kept up-to-date as much as possible with upstream stuff, which is good for security and platform support (e.g apple silicon builds sometimes soon).

Please read on for more info.

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Hello there :wave: I'm submitting & pinning this issue because I still see a lot of traffic to this repository and I want to make sure everyone interested is aware of its current status (especially before submitting new issues).

Questions, Answered

• Is this project currently maintained?

  Yes. The codebase would very much need a rewrite, but the project is currently in maintenance mode, which means it's kept alive and issues are triaged and fixed whenever possible. Don't expect new features, though.

• So is it abandoned?

  No. I'm still very fond of eDEX and would love to work on it again. Sadly, it does not pay enough bills to justify the time I need to throw at it, so until I'm more in the green, don't expect much.

  Want to help? Scroll down to the next section.

• Should I submit a new issue?

  Sure! If it's possible to fix them without rewriting everything, I will try to.

• Should I submit new ideas?

  Yes! Seeing new great ideas for this software submitted here from time to times is probably the reason why I haven't completely dropped it yet. Moreover, if there's ever going to be a rewrite, more ideas will make it even better than the current version!

  Please search through the Ideas section of the Discussions tab first.

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Ways You Can Help

• Star this repository and tell all your friends about it.
• Watch for new releases to get an update if something happens.
• [New!] Sign up to Bytes, the only JS newsletter that made it through my sponsorships spam filter, using this link. It won't cost you anything, and if after a few issues you realize it's not your vibe, you can always unsubscribe.
• If you can spare a few :dollar::
  • Buy me a coffee (one-time),
  • or sponsor me on GitHub (recurring monthly).
• Tell me you're interested in this project!
  • Reach out on Twitter,
  • or shoot a nice email my way!

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Thanks for reading, and for your interest in this software. :heart:

-G

[paramsiddharth]

Thank you for the lovely project! ❤ Looking forward to your future projects!