Patrick Spence, hands the reins of development of Renegade BBS Software to Jeff Herrings.
Reasons for giving up on Renegade, by Patrick Spence:
2000-01-16 Its that time.
I know I have said for the longest time that when I decided to quit
working on Renegade, that I would bury the source and there would be
no further work done. I have had a change of heart. I have selected
a sucker -ahem- fine programmer to replace me as active programmer.
Both my partner Gary and I have decided that we are going to start
working on newer projects, but don't want to see RG die.
The new programmer is named Jeff Herrings jeffh@ariven.com and he
will be taking over production and work on RG as of today.
Gary and I will still keep our hand in, as we are retaining copies
of the source code, and I will remain as someone who can answer Jeffs
questions about the code to help him get up to speed.
Now we get to the reasons....
1. I said from the beginning that I was working on the code for ME,
not for anyone else, and having rude people writing me because I
don't do things their way or at their speed is annoying. Well I
haven't run a bbs in over a year, so I guess updating a bbs
program that I don't use is not the way I want to spend my time.
2. I am disappointed in several people who volunteered to help. If
I can't get people to help test stuff, there is no point in
working on it either, since I can't catch all the bugs, nor can
I spend all my time working on a free program.
3. I have new ideas that I want to implement, that I cannot
implement in a dos programming world.
(The Above is copyright 2000 by Patrick Spence, All Rights Reserved)