I am about to start a sabbatical

[Edward K. Ream]

This post will be pre-writing for a locked, pinned post.

Don't panic: during my sabbatical I'll continue to answer questions and fix serious bugs.

Now seems like an excellent time to take a sabbatical break from Leo:

1. I have been working on Leo for almost 35 years without any extended break.

It's time for an extended period of exploration and learning about all the nifty new computer technologies. These explorations will likely suggests features that will be of use to a wide audience. For example, Leo should have better built-in support for rust, go, and other languages.

2. None of the remaining issues promise to move Leo forward in exciting new directions.

Imo, by far the most significant new direction for Leo in the last several years has been the leoInteg project.

3. There a no significant bugs remaining in Leo, and none are likely to appear during the sabbatical.

Summary

My sabbatical will start when Leo 6.3 b1 goes out the door. That will happen a week from today, October 23, or shortly thereafter.

I have been underwhelmed by my own performance over the last several years. leoAst.py is the high point, but it does not directly extend Leo. Rather, it is an example of using Leo. The low point was all the work adding Qt docks and then removing them.

The sabbatical will last t least several months, and one year at the longest. Only at the sabbatical's end will I know what comes next. I have several plans for the sabbatical, but they are preliminary and I won't go into details here.

All comments and questions are welcome here.

Edward

[Thomas Passin]

How will PRs going to be handled?

[Edward K. Ream]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 10:21 AM Thomas Passin <tbp1...@gmail.com> wrote:

How will PRs going to be handled?

The same as before. I'm not "going" anywhere, except metaphorically.

Note that other devs can approve PR's, not just me.

Edward

[Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas]

Edward,

Enjoy your sabbatical, explore new paths, rest, get confused, get inspired, be absent, be here. You have done a lot for this community and Leo is in good shape. So, thank you and see you after it (and a little bit meanwhile).

Cheers,

Offray

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[Edward K. Ream]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 1:12 PM Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <off...@riseup.net> wrote:

Edward,

Enjoy your sabbatical, explore new paths, rest, get confused, get inspired, be absent, be here. You have done a lot for this community and Leo is in good shape. So, thank you and see you after it (and a little bit meanwhile).

:-)

Edward

[Kent Tenney]

Enjoy your explorations, there certainly is a lot to discover!

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[Edward K. Ream]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 3:36 PM Kent Tenney <kte...@gmail.com> wrote:

Enjoy your explorations, there certainly is a lot to discover!

Thanks. I'll be following in your footsteps.

Edward