James- the solution you have come up with is considerate and fair.
They say money brings out the worst in people- and we see that proven plenty in crypto, where it is exacerbated by anonymity.
These arrogant parasite whiners and complainers are not worth and not intelligent enough to let them spoil such a venture as this.
They think they own you, and that is a resentful notion.
Community? Which community? Some deranged basement dwelling neckbeards that screech the loudest and most incoherent? Certainly not.
None of these critters will be able to make a proposal worth considering.
Please go through with it as outlined, and don't heed these two or three toxic distractors.
I wouldnt paint everyone with the same brush used to paint icebreaker. I dont see him volunteering to be the new lead dev.
Still I have heard enough complaints that I decided to formally address them. I have been doing my best with limited resources and I feel the results achieved with iguana are quite significant, but that is just the start of things. The problem of course is that as things go from being in the pure development stage that pays no dev costs, to rolling out products to the public, it will necessarily incur ongoing costs. If not money, then time.
I do see people helping out with support questions, but even for something like that, often I need to be the one that posts the answers. So what happens when we release a product? Am I to end up doing all the customer support for all the end users? What happens to the development schedule then?
I hope the people who initially came to the conclusion about how unfair the komodo conversion is, will after considering the constraints will understand that it is not unreasonable. In any case, it was the best I could do and it does provide a path toward completion of my vision, which has evolved and improved over time. Now I can describe in detail the entire structure, however if I do, then trolls will come out and say I am working on too many projects!
I cannot help that I am used to managing a dozen+ top caliber devs and so I am used to thinking in terms that a team like that can create. Without the dev team, I have to code it myself, but I can still get it done, it just takes a bit longer.
Took me 9 months to write iguana, the first multicoin parallel syncing bitcoin protocol daemon, including RPC, that compiles to 2MB. Is that slow? Not sure, but I know if I tried to find someone to do that, they would ask to fund a full dev team for at least that long. People dont realize the scale and difficulty of creating working backward compatible improvements to the state of art.