However, getting it working on x11 and Wayland will be a monumental effort.
I see and understand your concerns but probably there's an approach that can be used with less pain and stress.
When I get back on the project later this year, you're welcome to contribute code.
I was a developer then moved on project handling, even if I would have all the time and the skills required probably only my hands would not be very useful, but I will try to help in another way let me explain below.
I have one person helping me test, and additional developer support would indeed be welcome. However, the limiting factor is not money or what website it's hosted on. Instead, it's the massive time commitment involved which will likely span years. It was 3.5 years to do Keysharp, on top of 5 years on and off for IronAHK.
These are major pain points, effort and time required. Many of the greatest and best software of the humanity shared the same problems think of the monumental effort on Linux Kernel, or debian distribution or softwares like blender. At a certain point all of this great projects started restructuring themself in another way.
You have the big merit of taking the heritage of the IronAHK and refunding with your very committed time the project.
Why don't consider the opportunity to move from developer to project leader?
You spent lot of time on all the code of Keysharp, who if not you have the knowledge of all the details of the ongoing project, knows what to do and can mentor the new developers on what piece of code still have to be written ?
I suggested before github because is de facto standard among developers even more young and unexperienced ones to access and contribute other persons code. I guess that you choose bitbucket because you are more experienced and you value it better. Github on the other hand is more friendly for junior developers and persons who are willing to help.
Making a public call for help in newsgroups, forums and
putting on a website can help. Indeed for the precious time you spent on the project until now, give it a monetary value because it's fair to do so a certain point. Wouldn't accepting donations or putting on a foundation to get fundrising and get supported be right?
Consider that all big companies also donate to open source world because themself use these softwares and there's a nice need of stable and functional ahk like sw in ubuntu/debian/suse world.
It could seems difficult but if you have some friends in lawyer and taxes they could help setup it easily.
That said all I can do until now is inspire you! With this route a monumental effort of years could be shrinked down in a finite number of months.
I wish you a great day and good luck for the project.
[quote]However, getting it working on x11 and Wayland will be a monumental effort.[/quote]
I see and understand your concerns but probably there's an approach that can be used with less pain and stress.
[quote]When I get back on the project later this year, you're welcome to contribute code.[/quote]
I was a developer then moved on project handling, even if I would have all the time and the skills required probably only my hands would not be very useful, but I will try to help in another way let me explain below.
[quote]I have one person helping me test, and additional developer support would indeed be welcome. However, the limiting factor is not money or what website it's hosted on. Instead, it's the massive time commitment involved which will likely span years. It was 3.5 years to do Keysharp, on top of 5 years on and off for IronAHK.[/quote]
These are major pain points, effort and time required. Many of the greatest and best software of the humanity shared the same problems think of the monumental effort on Linux Kernel, or debian distribution or softwares like blender. At a certain point all of this great projects started restructuring themself in another way.
You have the big merit of taking the heritage of the IronAHK and refunding with your very committed time the project.
Why don't consider the opportunity to move from developer to project leader?
You spent lot of time on all the code of Keysharp, who if not you have the knowledge of all the details of the ongoing project, knows what to do and can mentor the new developers on what piece of code still have to be written ?
I suggested before github because is de facto standard among developers even more young and unexperienced ones to access and contribute other persons code. I guess that you choose bitbucket because you are more experienced and you value it better. Github on the other hand is more friendly for junior developers and persons who are willing to help.
Making a public call for help in newsgroups, forums and
putting on a website can help. Indeed for the precious time you spent on the project until now, give it a monetary value because it's fair to do so a certain point. Wouldn't accepting donations or putting on a foundation to get fundrising and get supported be right?
Consider that all big companies also donate to open source world because themself use these softwares and there's a nice need of stable and functional ahk like sw in ubuntu/debian/suse world.
It could seems difficult but if you have some friends in lawyer and taxes they could help setup it easily.
That said all I can do until now is inspire you! With this route a monumental effort of years could be shrinked down in a finite number of months.
I wish you a great day and good luck for the project.