State of the project in the last few months

[buger]

Hello everyone, captain speaking!

The project almost had no activity in the last 4 months, and some of you may wonder if it is still alive and how it is going to evolve. I think you deserve some explanation and my vision for the future.

I was born in Moldova, but live in Russian conscious life. You can imagine that the recent events have completely turned the lives of many people upside down.

For the last 10 years I’m working fully remotely and could call myself digital nomad. I’m working with people across the world, and treat myself as a cosmopolite. I have friends and colleagues from different parts of the world, including Ukraine, Poland, Romania and Moldova. When the conflict has started, like many, I felt helpless, hopeless, feeling constant anger and fear. Trying to help with what I can to my friends, affected in this conflict. Thinking about family's future. Getting mortage and starting big re-innovation projects just a few months before the conflict did not help my psychological and money stability either.

Building an IT business in Russia in the current situation is almost impossible. For example, when the conflict has started, all the payment providers, like Paddle, stopped working with Russians (which I totally understand). A lot of the customers, or their banks, stopped working with Russian based companies as well. The whole Russian IT business sector was destroyed just in few months.

Only now, after four months, I start acknowledging current situation, recovering from initial shock, and trying to make some thoughtful steps. In the last months, I was actively working on moving my business outside of Russia, and managed to do it.

I’m bringing back activity on the project, and planning to release next major version soon, as well as fixing current major bugs reported by the community. There is an active website and documentation redesign in progress as well.

Thank you for your support and keeping activity on the issues and pull requests. Really appreciate it, and eventually going to answer everyone. ❤️

Yours Leonid.