Question Disappointed from Kunena

Matias wrote:

Our original plan for Kunena was to create a new forum software for Joomla 1.5 without taking legacy code from FireBoard with us. Unfortunately for us FireBoard project died -- someone had to take over the project and to support its users. So instead of releasing FB 1.0.6 we renamed the last FB to Kunena 1.0.6 and released it by ourselves. What we didn't expect was the popularity of our software. So instead of implementing the new Kunena 2.0 we ended in fixing over 1000 bugs in the legacy code.

Now it's finally time to move forward. We are taking different direction from FireBoard: they tried to make new features (FB 2.0) on top of the old code. Unfortunately I have learned in half a year that changing something in the old code is not easy. Every new feature will most likely break something that you didn't expect because of the current code is not well structured.

I'm just GOBSMACKED by the amount of work that must have been! Wow! So all this is just tidying up the old forum, and you haven't even been able to get to the real project yet? wow! You guys are amazing!

What happens if/when some of you burn out/need to retire? Who "owns" this project, or runs it, etc? What are your rules for handing it on to other developers? Because I know I'd burn out if I'd been working on something this hard and getting this much whining in return for all my efforts.

That's the life some people live. Being a code monkey is everything to them, whereas for instance, working on networks means everything to me. It's a job for me, and I get paid, granted this skilled group probably does it as a hobby -- I am sure they get paid big bucks being code monkeys somewhere else though.