[Xitami] Xitami 2.5 production release...when?

[Brad Smith]

Well said, Pieter!  Kudos!!!!  And, speaking for Social Design 
Technologies, we are grateful for all the diligence invested in the Xitami 
Project!  Thank you, team!!!!  Thank you, viel' Dank!!!

Sincerely,
Brad Smith, CFO
Social Design Technologies


On 12 Jun 2002 at 18:54, Pieter Hintjens wrote:
 
> We have been very busy.  Running a business has meant putting 
> resources where they make the money that pays the rent, and since 1999
> this has meant slowing down work and support for Xitami.
> 
> We have occasionally considered ending the Xitami project, since it is
> expensive, hard work, and tends to burn-out the people who work on it.
>  However, we always come back to the same conclusion: it is a great
> project, important to us, and we will not abandon our users.
> 
> So, I can state for the record that as long as iMatix exists, we will
> continue the Xitami open source project.  We continue to work on the
> source code, especially the SMT kernel on which Xitami is based, and
> we are almost finished with a new packaging tool that will allow us to
> make new releases more easily than has been the case for the last few
> years.  We plan a 2.5 final release, and then a new 3.0 alpha release.
> 
> However, I can't make any statement about when and how such new 
> releases will come.  This all depends on how much money and effort we
> can shift into Xitami, and the motivation of the people who work on
> it.