[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] schaps:
Guys, I've been informed on what is going on here, for those who still wonder why I left XDA-Devs forums and don't keep you updated anymore on TouchXperience release progress, just look at all those ungrateful comments and quarrels... I started this thread in the aim to collect ideas and feedback on the project, unfortunately it went in a totally different way!

I know I made mistakes, I know I shouldn't try to develop and include so many features in a first version, I know I wasn't able to evaluate development time, I know it wasn't good to announce TouchXperience too early, and maybe I should better not to announce it at all! But now I think my biggest mistake was to dedicate a whole year of my life in such a project, because appart from the experience and knowledge I acquired, it didn't give me a lot of satisfaction and I'm loosing motivation after all those things I could read. Besides spending most of my free time on this project had unfortunately some consequences on my private life, you can imagine what happened... I hope I will change my mind once TouchXperience will be publicly released, but I'm not so optimistic after seeing for who I am working...

I have to admit I don't have so much experience in project management and some of you have certainly higher programming skills than me, this is the biggest project I accomplished in my life and I was faced with many problems, since november 2007 I was working almost everyday on the project (excepted during the time I had no more PC to work on). Please forgive me to make you patienting for a so long time, but believe me, I am more impatient than you to finish it because I'm really fed up and I would love to have a break.

TouchXperience beta already started, but at the moment I have to solve some critical problems, I will provide a new build to all private beta testers, Touch Pro/Diamond this week-end and Kaiser next week-end. Then I plan to send a preview to all donators (few days later if there is no major issue) to thank them for their contribution. Finally I will launch public beta once it will be ready, normally one week after private beta. Don't expect it to be perfect, I am working since several weeks to fix all bugs and I still have a lot to do. I distribute TouchXperience builds progressively to get a more efficient feedback and bug tracking.

I don't pretend that TouchXperience will replace some core OS components but it has a deep integration into the system and it is much more complex and featured than any other existing shell or interface. It will replace some HTC components with more advanced features and will complete Manila 2D/3D. To do this I had to disassemble many system components, that's why research took a lot of time, as well as debugging which is much harder.

Comparing TouchXperience development to ROM cooking or Manilla hacking just make me laugh... Of course it's easier to modify something when you have source code, but look at Manila, do you think it has been coded in few days by HTC R&D staff? We started to hear about it a year ago and now they are still working on newer versions, what's more Manila core is based on open source components. Modifying few bytes of code is nothing compared to the whole development time.

At the moment I can't provide TouchXperience as a CAB for several reasons, it will be a whole ROM but TouchXperience updates (which will be frequent) don't necessarily involve to reflash your device. TouchXperience can't be used out of the ROM at the moment because it has so many hardware and software dependancies that it would be impossible to get it working correctly. Everytime I tried to develop some stuffs exclusively for my ROMs, others tried to hack them to put them into their own ROMs without any approval. This is also a reason why I decided not to provide any CAB at the moment, I want others to take credits and to spoil a whole year of work. I will work on a more generic version, compatible with more devices and ROMs, and I will provide TouchXperience as a simple CAB when I will be able to do it.