Development Hiatus

[Tim]

When I started coding the first version of the Grase Hotspot 13 years ago, it was to solve a problem for me and those around me. After developing it for a while, I opened it up to the world to share. Over the years I continued developing, both for myself (to solve problems around me), and for the community that sprung up around it. It's always been my pet project, something I'm very proud of, and I hope it's solved many problems for others as well. I am really proud of the community that sprung up around me, as people helped each other get things working, and contributed to the project in various ways.

However, times have changed. As you are aware, the world has changed drastically in the last 18 months. For various reasons, my available time to work on the Grase Hotspot has been reduced many times over the years. My family has grown, work demands have increased. Time is precious, and choosing where to spend our time is one of the most important things we can do. It is time to be clear, both to myself and the community, that I am choosing to spend my time on my family instead of the Grase Hotspot development.

Two years ago I was considering changes to my work commitments, which would have allowed more development on the Grase Hotspot to be done, assuming the funding was available. However, there was never enough funding to make that a reality, and with the change in the global work environment, it's no longer something I am willing to do. More donations will not magically fix the time issue, and so I have disabled the donation forms and cancelled any remaining recurring donations.

I thank you, the community, for the support over the years, in responding to others on the mailing list, translation files, bug reporting, bug fixes, logo designs, and donations. We would never have gotten this far without the community.

All the code is still available on Github and Gitlab, although as archived repositories. (https://github.com/GraseHotspot/grase-www-portal and https://gitlab.com/grase/grase-www-portal/ are the main repos). For now, the apt repo's will continue to operate, however I make no promise about how long they'll operate for. They are actually in git repo's as well, so if you need the files, they are always there. The mailing list will continue to operate, unless everyone unsubscribes, then I'll close it down.

If someone wants to fork things and continue development, I welcome them to step up, fork the repo and start! And if things are progressing, I'm happy to work with them to publish releases for everyone (and even merge it back to the main repo). Rest assured, I will not hand over the keys (signing keys) of the apt repo's to anyone, that is too much of a security risk. If a fork is continuing, and I'm not able to merge it back to the main repo and push releases from there, it will be upto the forker to run their own apt repo, with their own keys.

Lastly, things can change. If my time situation changes in the future, I'll revisit the Grase Hotspot then, and see if there is still a place for it in the community, and if what we have can be resurrected.

God Bless

Tim

[Juvenal Mena]

Tim,

good to hear from you that you and your family are doing well, this was a great project, when i was a sysadmin i tried and put in production your software for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic (I worked there). The software never fails, the server was 24/7 with no issue.

You and the community did a great job, hope to hear from you soon.

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[Drazen Zuvela]

Thank you for your wonderfull work, your give away to comunity. Wish you luck and happiness in your private life and with your family.

Drazen.

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Gracias por tu tiempo.

Dios te Bendiga.

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[Yayato 2014]

So sad to read this. 

But I know what position your family has for you and understand very well as anybody else why you cannot exchange the follow up of your teenagers with anything. 

I am also sure that you will be back earlier that you may expect, you are the creator of Grase hotspot virus and the only way to have a vaccine of it is to stay in the project. 

Good luck Tim.  

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