The joys of a FLOSS project

Today, the following happened in #projecthamster@freenode:

(13:40:31) Forage: It is unfortunate that I won't be able to see/use all the effort you've been putting into Hamster already until the complete suite is ready/up-to-speed (dbus+lib+GTK+extension) to help you on the testing ...

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hamster-dbus 0.10.0 Released

As of today hammster-dbus has been released in it's initial version 0.10.0.

While this early release is far from finished it should give interested parties an idea where we are going with this as well as provide an initial foundation for integrating hamster with dbus (hence getting ...

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End of Hibernation / State of Affairs

After more than two months of stagnation on my end due to a breakup and personal challenges I am finally in a position again to muster enough mental energy to work on project hamster. First of all I want to take the opportunity to apologise for my recent absence and ...

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Project Hamster Reboot

Today marks a new beginning for 'Project Hamster'. After several months of resting in a dormant state 'Project Hamster' is happy and proud to announce that its hibernation has ended.

Over this past weekend the original creator Tom Baugis took me elbenfreund up by my offer to take over this ...

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Hamster Scope - What Hamster is and is not

As hamster-libs readme states, we are firm believers in the *ix toolbox principle - do one thing and do it right. In order to facilitate a focused and transparent development effort but also to manage expectations it seems advisable to write a bit about what kind of tasks hamster and ...

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Hamster-GTK 0.10.0 Released

Just a few seconds ago the initial release of Hamster-GTK, version 0.10.0, has been uploaded to the cheese shop. That means that after the rewritten backend codebase hamster-lib has been out in the wild for a few days by now you can now have a first look at ...

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The Road Ahead

As mentioned in the Hamster Reboot article 'Project Hamster's future lies in a rewrite of its underlying codebase.

The main idea here is to have multiple packages each focusing on a specific task and potentially depending on each other instead of the current on big blob of code.

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