In Memoriam: the free software projects we lost in 2010 [LWN.net]

In Memoriam: the free software projects we lost in 2010

Posted Jan 6, 2011 13:12 UTC (Thu) by dneary (subscriber, #55185)
Parent article: In Memoriam: the free software projects we lost in 2010

> Three years ago I looked at the projects that perished in 2007 for
> NewsForge. There were nine projects on that year's Big Sleep list, and
> although this is not an exact parallel (the 2007 article only covered
> projects I personally had written about during the preceding year), I
> can't help but notice that only one of them has survived in any form that
> I can identify today. There is reason to be hopeful about at least three
> or four of this year's victims.

On that 2007 list was the WengoPhone, which became QuteCom. While there have not been a huge number of releases, and the website is essentially unchanged from the launch, it is not the case that the project is dead.

In fairness, the QuteCom guys have made some releases (2.2 final was released in Jan 2010: http://www.qutecom.org/index.php?option=com_content&t...) and their Trac is still very active: http://trac.qutecom.org/ and their developer mailing list still gets a decent amount of traffic http://lists.qutecom.org/mailman/listinfo/qutecom-dev - in short, the project has gone into a long slow development process, but without much communication. Hopefully, I will have some time to help out over the coming months and help improve that situation.

Dave.

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In Memoriam: the free software projects we lost in 2010

Posted Jan 10, 2011 16:23 UTC (Mon) by n8willis (editor, #43041) [Link]

Ach. Thanks for the catch on QuteCom, Dave! Believe it or not, I just overlooked it ... even though I'm still on the mailing list. Perhaps that's due to the 'gray area' of the project that's reborn under a different name, with different hosting, and different developers. Certainly it was a while after the relaunch before QuteCom became stable enough to have confidence in its survival. It seems like the only Linux builds for the last few releases (including testing) have come from outsiders, which makes it easy to get behind on....

Nate