I guess the messages coming from me the last two days were a bit confusing, even more so with the funny images strewn in. Here's a bit of context and background information.

First, after three months of very intense (and rewarding) Hop development, I find I've neglected everything else I should have been doing, from paying my taxes to minding professional relationships outside the inner Hop circle to leading a private life. So instead of getting back into routine mode, I've been thinking about this and talking about it with friends for the last few days.

My current view on it is that there's three roots for this problem: an organizational one, a technical one, and a personal one.

The organizational side has a lot to do with the history of the Hop, which started as a personal skunkworks project. Later on it was picked up by the folks at ORF ON when their prior app server vendor decided to call it quits, but the real background of the decision were the confidence and enthusiasm to build something cool and useful. Related to this is the decision to open source the Hop very early before people higher up would "start to care" about it. So the Hop still is (and will be for a long time) on that road from a skunkworks project to an official one, and that's not always a smooth road. The current bump in the way will hopefully lead to some organizational improvements which should get administrative stuff off me and add manpower to the project. Nothing spectacular, and the details still need to be worked out.

On the technical side, the Hop still ain't good enough for me. See, the Hop's one and only purpose is to make web development easy for me and everybody else who wants to use it. But time and again, when I start to build a Hop application, I find something that I could fix or add inside the Hop to make that task as easy as I think it should be. Of course, that's a highly personal experience, because I don't want to spend more than 2% of my time writing Hop applications (while others do it as their main job), and I'm in a position to actually fix stuff inside the Hop. The good thing is that the gap between my requirements and Hop reality has been closing consistently, and we did some brainstorming yesterday that promises to close it even further.

The personal side of the problem is that I happen to be somewhere on the border between persistent and obsessive, but I won't talk too much about that here and now -- you know, it's personal. :-)

Auch eine Lösung.

> apropos leading a private life
wie wär's mit einem kleinen bier heut abend in der blauen sau? oder ein pfiff? oder ein gedanke von einem bier?

Würde ich gern, aber leider bin ich heute abend schon vergeben, an jemanden den du gut kennst und der mir was vorschlagen will, ich fürchte geschäftlich. Das ist um 20:00, vielleicht vorher oder nachher?

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