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</header>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>I will now be regularly writing posts about project status, plans
-and hopes for the future.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Before that though, there&#8217;s one important news to share.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Until a year ago all development was financed through consulting
-and development services. This worked alright but too much time was
-spent doing things that didn&#8217;t benefit the open source projects.
-And that didn&#8217;t make me happy at all. Because I like being happy
-I stopped that for the most part and spent the year figuring things
-out, experimenting and discussing with people about it.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>What makes me happy is answering these "what if" questions.
-Ranch and Cowboy are a direct product of that, as they originate
-from the "what if we could have a server running different protocols
-on different ports but all part of the same application?"; Erlang.mk
-is a bit different: "this works great for me, what if it could
-become the standard solution for building Erlang applications?".</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>When I successfully answer the question, this becomes a project
-that may end up largely benefiting the Erlang community. I love
-Erlang and I love enabling people to build awesome products based
-on my projects. It&#8217;s a lot more rewarding than activities like
-consulting where you only help one company at a time. And it&#8217;s
-also a much better use of my time as this has a bigger impact on
-the community.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>The hard part is to figure out how to be able to spend 100%
-of the time on projects that you basically give away for free,
-and still be able to afford living.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>The immediate solution was getting work sponsored by the
-<a href="http://www.leofs.org/">LeoFS project</a>. LeoFS is a great
-distributed file storage that I can only recommend to anyone who
-needs to store files or large pieces of data. The sponsorship
-works pretty great, and spurred development of the SPDY code in
-Cowboy amongst other things, plus a couple upcoming projects
-done more recently and getting a final touch before release.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>It turns out sponsoring works great. So I&#8217;m thinking of
-expanding on it and hopefully get enough sponsoring for fulltime
-open source development. So I figured out a few things that
-can give incentive to companies willing to sponsor.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Sponsors can <em>request that a particular version of Cowboy
-be maintained indefinitely</em> (as long as they&#8217;re sponsoring).
-This means fixes will be backported. This doesn&#8217;t include
-features although I can take requests depending on feasability.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Sponsors can <em>have a direct, private line of communication</em>,
-useful when they need help debugging or optimizing their product.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Sponsors can <em>get their name associated with one of the
-project</em> and get a good standing in the community thanks
-to this. They would be featured in the README of the project
-which is viewed by hundreds of developers daily.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Sponsors can <em>be listed on this website</em>. I will modify
-the front page when we get a few more sponsors, they will be
-featured below the carousel of projects.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Please <a href="mailto:[email protected]">contact us</a> if
-you are interested in sponsoring, and say how much you are willing
-to sponsor. The goal here is only to have enough money to make a
-living and attend a few conferences. There&#8217;s an upper limit in the
-amount needed per year, so the more sponsors there are the cheaper
-it becomes to everyone.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>The upper limit stems from the new legal entity that will replace
-the current Nine Nines. This is mostly to lower the legal costs and
-simplify the administrative stuff and allow me to dedicate all my
-time on what&#8217;s important. From your point of view it&#8217;s business as
-usual.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Now on to project statuses and future works.</p></div>
-<div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="_cowboy">Cowboy</h2>
-<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Cowboy is getting ready for a 1.0 release. Once multipart support
-is in, all that&#8217;s left is finishing the guide, improving tests and
-finishing moving code to the cowlib project. I hope everything will
-be ready around the time R17B is released.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>I already dream of some API breaking changes after 1.0, which
-would essentially become 2.0 when they&#8217;re done. An extensive survey
-will be setup after the 1.0 release to get more information on what
-people like and don&#8217;t like about the API.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>And of course, when clients start implementing HTTP/2.0 then we
-will too.</p></div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="_ranch">Ranch</h2>
-<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Ranch is also getting close to 1.0. I am currently writing a
-test suite for upgrades. After that I also would like to write
-a chaos_monkey test suite and add a getting started chapter to the
-guide.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Ranch is pretty solid otherwise, it&#8217;s hard to foresee new
-features at this point.</p></div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="_erlang_mk">Erlang.mk</h2>
-<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="paragraph"><p>I didn&#8217;t expect this project to become popular. Glad it did though.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Windows support is planned, but will require GNU Make 4.
-Thankfully, it&#8217;s available at least through cygwin. Make,
-Git and Erlang will be the only required dependencies
-because the rest of the external calls will be converted to
-using Guile, a Scheme included since GNU Make 4. So it is
-Guile that will download the needed files, magically fill
-the list of modules in the <em>.app</em> file and so on, allowing
-us to provide a truly cross-platform solution without
-losing on the performance we benefit from using Make.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Also note that it is possible to check whether Guile
-is available so we will be able to fallback to the current
-code for older systems.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>I am also thinking about adding an extra column to the package
-index, indicating the preferred tag or commit number to be used.
-This would allow us to skip the individual <code>dep</code> lines
-entirely if the information in the package index is good enough.
-And committing that file to your project would be the only thing
-needed to lock the dependencies. Of course if a <code>dep</code>
-line is specified this would instead override the file.</p></div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="_alien_shaman">Alien Shaman</h2>
-<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="paragraph"><p>This is the two-parts project requested by the LeoFS team.
-This is essentially a "distributed bigwig". I am hoping to
-have a prototype up in a few days.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Alien is the part that allows writing and enabling probes
-in your nodes. Probes send events which may get filtered before
-being forwarded to their destination. The events may be sent
-to a local process, a remote process, over UDP, TCP or SSL.
-Events may also be received by a process called a relay, which
-may be used to group or aggregate data before it is being sent
-over the network, reducing the footprint overall.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Shaman is the UI for it. It will ultimately be able to display
-any event as long as it&#8217;s configured to do so. Events may be logs,
-numeric values displayed on graphs updated in real time, lists of
-items like processes and so on.</p></div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="_feedback">Feedback</h2>
-<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="paragraph"><p>That&#8217;s it for today! There will be another status update once
-Shaman is out. But for now I have to focus on it.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>As always, please send feedback on the projects, this post,
-the sponsoring idea, anything really! Thanks.</p></div>
-</div>
-</div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>I will now be regularly writing posts about project status, plans
+and hopes for the future.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Before that though, there&#8217;s one important news to share.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Until a year ago all development was financed through consulting
+and development services. This worked alright but too much time was
+spent doing things that didn&#8217;t benefit the open source projects.
+And that didn&#8217;t make me happy at all. Because I like being happy
+I stopped that for the most part and spent the year figuring things
+out, experimenting and discussing with people about it.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>What makes me happy is answering these "what if" questions.
+Ranch and Cowboy are a direct product of that, as they originate
+from the "what if we could have a server running different protocols
+on different ports but all part of the same application?"; Erlang.mk
+is a bit different: "this works great for me, what if it could
+become the standard solution for building Erlang applications?".</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>When I successfully answer the question, this becomes a project
+that may end up largely benefiting the Erlang community. I love
+Erlang and I love enabling people to build awesome products based
+on my projects. It&#8217;s a lot more rewarding than activities like
+consulting where you only help one company at a time. And it&#8217;s
+also a much better use of my time as this has a bigger impact on
+the community.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>The hard part is to figure out how to be able to spend 100%
+of the time on projects that you basically give away for free,
+and still be able to afford living.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>The immediate solution was getting work sponsored by the
+<a href="http://www.leofs.org/">LeoFS project</a>. LeoFS is a great
+distributed file storage that I can only recommend to anyone who
+needs to store files or large pieces of data. The sponsorship
+works pretty great, and spurred development of the SPDY code in
+Cowboy amongst other things, plus a couple upcoming projects
+done more recently and getting a final touch before release.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>It turns out sponsoring works great. So I&#8217;m thinking of
+expanding on it and hopefully get enough sponsoring for fulltime
+open source development. So I figured out a few things that
+can give incentive to companies willing to sponsor.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Sponsors can <em>request that a particular version of Cowboy
+be maintained indefinitely</em> (as long as they&#8217;re sponsoring).
+This means fixes will be backported. This doesn&#8217;t include
+features although I can take requests depending on feasability.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Sponsors can <em>have a direct, private line of communication</em>,
+useful when they need help debugging or optimizing their product.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Sponsors can <em>get their name associated with one of the
+project</em> and get a good standing in the community thanks
+to this. They would be featured in the README of the project
+which is viewed by hundreds of developers daily.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Sponsors can <em>be listed on this website</em>. I will modify
+the front page when we get a few more sponsors, they will be
+featured below the carousel of projects.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Please <a href="mailto:[email protected]">contact us</a> if
+you are interested in sponsoring, and say how much you are willing
+to sponsor. The goal here is only to have enough money to make a
+living and attend a few conferences. There&#8217;s an upper limit in the
+amount needed per year, so the more sponsors there are the cheaper
+it becomes to everyone.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>The upper limit stems from the new legal entity that will replace
+the current Nine Nines. This is mostly to lower the legal costs and
+simplify the administrative stuff and allow me to dedicate all my
+time on what&#8217;s important. From your point of view it&#8217;s business as
+usual.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Now on to project statuses and future works.</p></div>
+<div class="sect1">
+<h2 id="_cowboy">Cowboy</h2>
+<div class="sectionbody">
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Cowboy is getting ready for a 1.0 release. Once multipart support
+is in, all that&#8217;s left is finishing the guide, improving tests and
+finishing moving code to the cowlib project. I hope everything will
+be ready around the time R17B is released.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>I already dream of some API breaking changes after 1.0, which
+would essentially become 2.0 when they&#8217;re done. An extensive survey
+will be setup after the 1.0 release to get more information on what
+people like and don&#8217;t like about the API.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>And of course, when clients start implementing HTTP/2.0 then we
+will too.</p></div>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="sect1">
+<h2 id="_ranch">Ranch</h2>
+<div class="sectionbody">
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Ranch is also getting close to 1.0. I am currently writing a
+test suite for upgrades. After that I also would like to write
+a chaos_monkey test suite and add a getting started chapter to the
+guide.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Ranch is pretty solid otherwise, it&#8217;s hard to foresee new
+features at this point.</p></div>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="sect1">
+<h2 id="_erlang_mk">Erlang.mk</h2>
+<div class="sectionbody">
+<div class="paragraph"><p>I didn&#8217;t expect this project to become popular. Glad it did though.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Windows support is planned, but will require GNU Make 4.
+Thankfully, it&#8217;s available at least through cygwin. Make,
+Git and Erlang will be the only required dependencies
+because the rest of the external calls will be converted to
+using Guile, a Scheme included since GNU Make 4. So it is
+Guile that will download the needed files, magically fill
+the list of modules in the <em>.app</em> file and so on, allowing
+us to provide a truly cross-platform solution without
+losing on the performance we benefit from using Make.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Also note that it is possible to check whether Guile
+is available so we will be able to fallback to the current
+code for older systems.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>I am also thinking about adding an extra column to the package
+index, indicating the preferred tag or commit number to be used.
+This would allow us to skip the individual <code>dep</code> lines
+entirely if the information in the package index is good enough.
+And committing that file to your project would be the only thing
+needed to lock the dependencies. Of course if a <code>dep</code>
+line is specified this would instead override the file.</p></div>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="sect1">
+<h2 id="_alien_shaman">Alien Shaman</h2>
+<div class="sectionbody">
+<div class="paragraph"><p>This is the two-parts project requested by the LeoFS team.
+This is essentially a "distributed bigwig". I am hoping to
+have a prototype up in a few days.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Alien is the part that allows writing and enabling probes
+in your nodes. Probes send events which may get filtered before
+being forwarded to their destination. The events may be sent
+to a local process, a remote process, over UDP, TCP or SSL.
+Events may also be received by a process called a relay, which
+may be used to group or aggregate data before it is being sent
+over the network, reducing the footprint overall.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Shaman is the UI for it. It will ultimately be able to display
+any event as long as it&#8217;s configured to do so. Events may be logs,
+numeric values displayed on graphs updated in real time, lists of
+items like processes and so on.</p></div>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="sect1">
+<h2 id="_feedback">Feedback</h2>
+<div class="sectionbody">
+<div class="paragraph"><p>That&#8217;s it for today! There will be another status update once
+Shaman is out. But for now I have to focus on it.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>As always, please send feedback on the projects, this post,
+the sponsoring idea, anything really! Thanks.</p></div>
+</div>
+</div>
</article>
</div>
@@ -222,55 +222,107 @@ the sponsoring idea, anything really! Thanks.</p></div>
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