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I would say that the activity has been flaky for the last few years. In the sense that before that, our development speed and release rhythm were extremely stable, but in the past few years the project has been going through many changes, both planned and unforeseen. We're still recovering from the unforeseen changes, and the planned changes mean that we've been starting up new subprojects that have been largely under the hood until recently.

Thanks for the kind words. We're planning to stabilise our development this year and bring a number of our new developments to the forefront.

Any plans to step up the work on the UI and the applications for Syllable Desktop?

Yes, two people have been working on a native theming engine for Syllable (Desktop), and one of the plans to get more applications on Syllable is to make it easy to write REBOL 3 apps.

Another subproject, that we created a year ago, is to have more standard open source programs, starting on Syllable Server. In the past year we have been using Syllable Server with X11, the ROX Desktop and many apps such as Firefox and Thunderbird exclusively for our own development and infrastructure. (I'm on it right now, and the websites pointed to in the article are running on it.) Sadly, this standard software is so complex that it's much more work to reach release quality, so we can't release this system yet:

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That's good news. Is there an estimated timeframe for next release?

No, we can't commit to that yet until we have restabilised development. But there's a hint on the ReBorCon site. :-)

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