Leak from Dan "All Nighter" Pritchett: Logos is going to release some new cool website on Friday...
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For the curious... silence from the Logos developers doesn't mean
they are on vacation. It means they are working hard to deliver the
things you're waiting for! :-)There are concerns that Logos has abandoned this or that platform or
feature, or that all the energy is on one particular area to the
detriment of others. This isn't true. We have a large team split over
many projects; the top priority projects generally have more than one
person working on them.Yes, if we cut the number of projects we could get a few of them done
sooner. (Though it's often the case that adding 50% more people won't
improve productivity by the same amount -- there are diminishing returns
as more cooks stir the same pot.) But we believe these are all
important things to deliver.We are actively working on:
- Logos 4 Windows
- Logos 4 Mac
- Logos iOS improvements
- Logos for Android
- Proclaim for Mac/Windows/Mobile (remotes)
- A dozen miscellaneous but (trust me) very important projects
related to improving our internal systems, cleaning up metadata,
building out our platform, preparing unannounced things, etc., etc.At the moment, we consider the platform wars "tied" for all of these.
Windows has more users than Mac, but Mac is behind and needs
improvement, and it is gaining market share on the way to 50%. We
consider it equally important to Windows, and already are at the point
where some new work is Mac first, then ported to Windows.iOS has more users, but Android is growing very fast, and we're
treating them as equally important. They have equally sized dev teams,
though Android is a bit behind, and we're planning all new work/features
for both.We're even preparing for more (alas!) back-end re-writing /
re-architecting, to enable us to share more code between all FOUR
platforms.Other mobile OS's are not getting as much attention, though Biblia.com and some HTML5 solutions are still getting some work.
Within the Logos 4 (dual platform) world, we're still working on
things like PBB. PBB has been in development for many months, and is
absolutely not abandoned. It just hasn't been ready to test or deliver
yet. It's getting close.SermonFile is a harder problem, because we don't like the way we used
to do it. People wanted to put too many too different documents into
that system, so we're planning a completely different approach that's
web oriented. (More http://books.logos.com with
document uploading than 3.x SermonFile.) Part of SermonFile
functionality will be taken over by a much better PBB tool, part by this
new web solution, which is further out than Q2.We have somewhere around 40 full-time developers. Two started Monday.
Two more are hired and starting in coming weeks. We have 14 software
development interns this summer; 1 is already here, 6 start Monday, and
then they keep coming on through June. We've added a UI designer, have
two UI design summer interns, and we've hired more testers.We are still hiring, and are willing to take at least 6 more
full-time developers as soon as we can find them. We conduct multiple
development interviews nearly every day. (Using valuable staff time,
unfortunately.) We've sent our dev hiring manager to Wheaton, Baylor,
and Seattle Pacific University in the past few weeks; we attended a four
university career fair in Spokane before that. We've had the computer
science faculty of our local Western Washington University in for lunch,
and invited all the seniors to come by for a tour. We co-sponsored a
local technical recruiting night. (http://bellinghamtechnight.com/)We're not slacking off, and we're not abandoning your favorite planned features. If we're abandoning anything, it's sleep. :-)
-- Bob
P.S. Know a great software developer? Send them our way!
This recent post by Bob was very informative. I'm not sure if its been posted here on this thread yet, but if not, I'd recommend reading it along with the discussion that followed.
Face it - we're NOT going to get PBB until Logos has exhausted all possible, profitable, public domain resources. Building resources from public domain sources was one of the things that made PBBs so attractive for Libronix users, often providing those resources long before Logos provided them.
Oops! [;)]
Jacob Hantla
Pastor/Elder, Grace Bible Church
gbcaz.org
Face it - we're NOT going to get PBB until Logos has exhausted all possible, profitable, public domain resources. Building resources from public domain sources was one of the things that made PBBs so attractive for Libronix users, often providing those resources long before Logos provided them.
Oops!
Is this wiki link a real one or a fake one that you made? Because if it's real then we only have Logos 4.2b - 4.2z to go to make it to Logos 4.3...[A]
Face it - we're NOT going to get PBB until Logos has exhausted all possible, profitable, public domain resources. Building resources from public domain sources was one of the things that made PBBs so attractive for Libronix users, often providing those resources long before Logos provided them.
Oops!
Is this wiki link a real one or a fake one that you made? Because if it's real then we only have Logos 4.2b - 4.2z to go to make it to Logos 4.3...
Wiki link is real; Logos 4.3 Beta 6 does have Personal Book Builder (PBB). Logos may skip 4.2c thru 4.2z for stable 4.3 later this year [8-|]
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