Re: [orca-list] future of orca?

[hackingKK <hackingkk gmail com>]

On Friday 19 February 2010 04:40 AM, hank smith wrote:

hello what is the future of orca?

is it going to go the way of gnopernicus?

if orca could be dieing I may stick with mac I am used to gui interface don't want to start a flam war I just know what I was thaught on. please let me know

your concernes are right.
But there are some things I personally observe.
* Orca is much more matured and has a bigger community.  People like wil and joanmary are very dedicated, only difference is that they might just take up another job and do orca development on a part-time basis.
* orca is much more feature rich, already good enough for most of the daily computing tasks.
* if the latest stable version makes it to a LTS distro such as Ubuntu 10.04, I would say it is more than sufficient for at least a year.  So if the development process slows down a bit, we might not be in a state of emergency.
* as it happens with many successful free software projects, the community takes care of the development.

So I don't think it will die as is feared.

Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.