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I only really watch foss stuff, which should be exciting, but I get tired as it's always much of the same news:
So I'm not exactly thrilled about anything either, tho for every different reasons
A complete rewrite/redesign actually happens but with half of the original app's features missing
Rewrites have failed so often that I wonder why people still think they make any sense.
It's easy to look at source code and see that it's got complicated. It's harder to work out when it's complicated because it needs to do something complicated like model something from the real world that's complicated, or when it's complicated because it's accumulated loads of old crap. If you start experimenting with a rewrite, typically it'll look like it mostly works before you've added most of the necessary complexity, and that can trick people into thinking that it wasn't actually necessary.
Yeah, but what I meant more is that in almost every case, refactoring is the way to go.
Ugh, flashbacks to KDE 4...
and GNOME 3 too
I've been looking into continuing or updating old programs that don't have maintainers in the FSF/GNU list, but the mailing lists and archaic webpages don't help much.
I'm still learning, but I'm tired of not seeing enough good FOSS alternatives or only discontinued ones.
yes, it's much needed now as many projects needs contributions and you can create a website and list all of the contributions that is required to make it a real foss alternative