+ Actually, when this issue came up on the forum... more than
a year ago, I volunteered. Now I want to suggest an answer
which I think will really boost the XaraLX project.
I, and I am sure, many other serious users of XaraLX, do have
some coding experience... so... what we are seeing here is a
"brickwall" situation... those with an interest in helping out, soon
find they are excluded from participating, because they are not
familiar with the code base, and have no real experience in a team
coding project... so... here is my suggestion. Why not open a
special web project, open to capable coders, but the purpose would
be, as much, to educate the interested XaraLX prospective coders...
providing them more obvious jobs... this could even take the form
of a "living coding tutorial", where problems already solved would
be provided as [test questions] for the prospective coders to
solve... but this would be a no-fail proposition to a reasonable
extent... wrong answers would not be failed, but corrected...
and of course, new prospects could officially give up their
involvment at any time.
Im thinking... especially among Linux users of XaraLX (a linux
release, is it not ?), that there must be hundreds of fairly capable
coders who want to help this project, but, again, dont have either
project experience, or experience with the conversion-specific tasks
which still need completion...
...at the simplest level, it's just code, not "magic"... given a few hints,
Id think, easily, fifty or more new coders could quickly learn to make
useful contributions.
So - my parting question will be... is this something any of the remaining principal coders would consider a realistic project to undertake... be
willing to organize, or contribute to ?

end "mega-coder" proposal