[Touch Cruise ROM Development] bally3:
Yes this project is dead.

Unfortunately the development work required to create a 2D driver was too great for any single developer on xdev to tackle on their own. Due to the nature of xdevs, talented developers move onto newer devices as they purchase them and that leaves older devices with less and less development potential.

NuShrike and Rogro82 both pledged to help on this project (I believe Rogro82 is still tinkering with the touch screen issue) but both devs requested that more developers come on board as they would be unable to take on the workload involved by themselves (fair comment - we all have lives). After many requests for more developers to come on board with little interest the project has been abandoned. There was some success with the Kaiser and te G810 ddi file but I believe has also been abandoned.

There are lessons to be learnt from this project and I hope xdev users will take them on board:

Firstly, Programmers are not the only DEVELOPERS who work hard on projects. There are many developers like myself and Neos2007 who work hard in the background, researching, testing and a huge amount of support and administration work which is as time-consuming if not more than the actual programming development work that is done. This should be recognised and appreciated as development work and if donations links are added to signatures, consider a donation - dont insult them and then wonder why projects are abandoned because developers leave in disgust - That lesson should have been learnt by Polaris users just by reading the Kaiser threads - we can and should be better than that. The Polaris forum has been the envy of xdevs - this is from the many pm's I've had from users on other forums wishing they had the development activity we have enjoyed - dont let a few rotten apples spoil it for everyone else - If you like what we do - tell us, if you dont - keep it to yourself.

Secondly, I have a great amount of respect for xda developers as a forum, but I have noticed over the last few months that more and more development is shifting to irc with xdev used for notification only. I think irc has its place and its a great tool for communicating faster when required but my personal opinion is a successful xdevs project is better kept on xdevs where it belongs with irc used for communication as required. The issues with irc are well known for project control issues, as seen with the Android project recently which cause projects to collapse. This was also partly the case with the 2D driver project apart from the lack of devs issue. Keeping a project on xdevs allows for more user interaction, its historical and easy to pick up from and as we proved with the 3D driver project has a much higher rate of success as theres less chance of arguments of project control.

A successful project requires a well constructed project team and also developers who are willing to commit the time and energy required to see it through. There are plenty of talented developers in the Polaris forum, but they are either unwilling or unable to commit the time required to undertake projects.

I hope more developers will take the time to contribute to our projects and I hope more users will also donate to developers as well as to rom cookers to keep projects like these going.

Regards

Bally3