Many people have been wondering what’s been up with us lately, with no word on progress for the last month. We are sorry to say that our lack up updates have been due to a lack of actual progress.
Let me explain:
Coding of Cairo started last August, by one single developer. Over time, we have hired and lost developers that haven’t contributed to the building of Cairo. This one developer had been quite devoted on the creation of the Milestone 1 build and promised us that we would be able to release it in February. Over time, we have had a lapse of communication with him for several weeks at a time. After two warnings, we have decided to release him from the team and to pass the Cairo development on to our newly joined members.
However, he still has all of the code which has the desktop nearly done, as well as the menubar and explorer started and partially populated with features.
We have been attempting to contact him to get the source code for the parts of Cairo that have been developed, but we still haven’t heard anything, a week later. If we don’t get this source code, we will have to consider that code abandonware and re-start coding Cairo from scratch. This is why we have been pushing that we need developers a bit more lately.
The Cairo Team is very sorry to have to say this, but we cannot bring ourselves to hide what has been going on from our fans. However, we do still expect (and are extremely devoted) to deliver Cairo as promised. In hindsight, should we need to rebuild Cairo, we will come back stronger and better prepared than before. We ask for your continued support through this difficult time and appreciate your understanding.
Best,
-The Cairo Team
