Are you programmer ?
Are you enthusiast about developing a tool that's part of many people's day to
day work?
Are you enthusiast about developing a multilingual app that has been translated into more than 10 languages ( and still counting, users them self translates and uploads the language files)?
How does it feel to you, when more than 1,00,000 people across the globe from different countries use the tool that you develop ?
Do you want to be part of a project that has been reviewed/talked about by dozens of blogs
Do you wants to receive few e-mails of appreciation e-mails every month, from people of different geographical locations?
If yes then this is for you?
PMW has been an open source project but so far I was the alone developer,
but due to increased responsibility in my personnel life i have not been able to spare time for development.
Sometimes you are enthusiast about doing something, but still can not do it due to lack of time, I have reached that stage if we talk about development of PMW, I still have so many features in the mind that I want to add to PMW(especially for Win7) and in fact have plans about how will they get implemented, but unfortunately not getting time, and hence I am looking out for some enthusiast developers who want to contribute to this 'tiny yet useful tool'.
When I began this back in early 2007 I was a happy bachelor :o), and in 2007 itself i got married, even after that I continued to contribute to PMW, In 2009 I became proud Dad but still I continued to contribute to PMW, but now I am falling short of time, 24 hours day feels too short. Perhaps I should be back after 2-3 years as developer but currently it looks difficult to contribute as developer but I can still contribute as mentor to new devs/ as admin.
I keep getting e-mails from many PMW enthusiast, who keep sending language file after translating PMW into their native language, I love to see that enthusiasm and that kind of user base, this kind of enthusiast user base is what kept me moving for so long, and this the reason why I do not want to shut down this product and instead want to just change my role.
I had been thinking of writing this post from few months, and I knew I will get criticized a lot by PMW users for pulling off, but folks I am not stepping back, I hope there will be some enthusiast developers who will come forward and I will explain them the code base and continue to be in touch with them through online meetings, mentor them initially and I hope PMW will keep rolling.
Today when I got comments on my other blog from k a l a m b o n g "What happen to your ProcessPriority project?" I thought I should make this post today.
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