The main reason why Omea’s source release is being delayed now is that we’ve tried to change a bit too many things at once. When the decision to open-source the product was made, we did a lot of jumps. .NET 1.1 to 2.0, Perforce to Subversion, NAnt to MSBuild, NSIS to Wix, Draco.NET to TeamCity… well, that’s all I think. While all of these changes are for the better, they left the product in an unreleasable state – and given that no one works full time on Omea, it’s taking us quite a long time to get out of that state. The work is going on, though, and nearing completion. Feature development and bugfixing on Omea is also gradually proceeding – you can track the progress of that on JIRA and Confluence.

While I still can’t give you any estimates on the date of an open-source release of Omea, the work is going on, and Omea’s not dead.

To these comments I simply say that this is exactly why, if I were JetBrains, I would have released the product to its community sooner rather than later.

Regardless, it’s nice to know that Omea lives.

Aside: FeedDemon and NetNewsWire are now free (but not yet open source).

Jeff

So, I’m trying to move on. Here’s my game plan:
(1) Pause all feeds in Omea to create a static database of content. _X_
(2) Import my current OPML into NetNewsWire and actively keep up with my subscription there (i.e. no longer in Omea). _X_
(3) Write an Omea plugin to export my Omea database into, say, PDF for archival, search, etc. ___
(4) Uninstall Omea and forget about it. ___

I have a bead on #3…just need to make the time to crank out the tool. Then…salvation!

Sad, but true!

If you should find any app worth compare, please do let me know.

Thanks

Jeff

As for the specific license, I guess I shouldn’t say anything before the official announcement. As for “how”, the Omea code will be hosted on svn.jetbrains.org, the same Subversion repository currently used for open-source IntelliJ IDEA plugins. We’ll also continue using our JIRA and Confluence for issue tracking and communication.

Hopefully there will be an ETA provided regarding this “official” announcment–ideally online and in the Omea newsgroups.

Thanks for your reply. Could you please share *what* license has been selected for Omea open source? Do you know if Omea code will be offered, for example, as a SourceForge project or be project from the JetBrains site?

I realize that you’ve been working more on IntelliJ for awhile now, but knowing the background of Omea (aka OmniaMea, aka Syndirella) and your role in that, I’m glad that you confirmed a continuing interest in Omea’s success and usage.

Regards,

-Craig

This is a positive step, but frustrating still that this information was not offered to the community unsolicited, but rather extracted from the context of some unrelated thread.

A step nonetheless.

I’m flustered enough to go run to a competing product, but there just aren’t any that fill the bill.

I can understand there are licensing woes to overcome, but in the meanwhile, why can’t they just give us a build? I mean really.

My first wish is for someone to spend a day running a code profiler on it, adding whatever indexes that need to be added and fix whatever code is behaving so badly.

That’s my wish regardless of open source or not!

Michael Walsh

I mean really, wtf, it’s been just about four months now since the last build, and no indication from JetBrains that anyone really cares.

Ordinarily, I’d just <shrug/>, and *poof*, be off with it. However, as to me Omea is so indispensable and haven’t found anything else that quite does what it does, I just can’t let this go.

Quite infuriating it is.

Knowing that there are talented developers waiting impatiently for it to be open-sourced, makes the inaction even more painful. There was so much promise in the product.

I’ve stopped trying to find the perfect “all in one” product an am using a combination of services from Google and 37 Signals now. None of it has the potential that Omea had to help me pull together and manage all the information objecets I have to deal with on a constant basis.

I wonder what Omea’s creator, Dmitry Jemerov, thinks. After all, Jetbrains acquired his “Syndirella” software, but Dmitry has been working on IntelliJ for some time now…

Clearly, JetBrains has little concern for the time and energies Omea users have invested in this product. As evidenced by JetBrains [evident] willingness to release the product’s source to the wild, the company has no intention of marketing it for profit, and as such, they’ve apparently no interest in or motivation for supporting Omea.

This should make it all the more important that the developers who have invested THEIR time in the product do whatever possible to release the source, so the application survives the ever evolving needs of the users.

Thanks, Craig, for voicing this issue yet again … hopefully someone from JB will hear our pleas.

Jeff