Gnuxie & Draupnir: Late Autumn 2024

This is just a smaller update in the aftermath of v2.0.0-beta.9. In the previous update we said that we would be releasing v2.0.0 in the middle of December. This is now not going to happen but we are now ironing out the most relevant issues preventing a release. We expect to make the release soon and spend a few weeks responding to any leftover issues and feedback.

We are still working towards a proactive Draupnir protection in the background, but realistically this won't be out of the door until February. I'm really excited about this though.

The main thing that we have worked on for beta.9 is protection settings and protection capabilities. These are the main configuration points for changing the behaviour of protections but they probably are still under utilised. Please see the tutorial for how to use them here.

I've had a difficult time since the last blog update. I've faced a few personal challenges, and also burnt out. I've been taking steps to overcome issues and I've then also had time to think about what I'm doing with Draupnir and Matrix.

And I've concluded that I do enjoy working on Draupnir, and we have a strong positive supportive community surrounding the project.

However, the larger Matrix developer ecosystem and developer community has become difficult for me to engage with. And while I have been playing the game, written MSCs, organized and bootstrapped the ecosystem forum, and been involved in all kinds of discussions around governance, proposals, whatever. I'm happy to start letting go outside of immediate concerns for Draupnir itself. I was way too invested and involved in this. So I'm trying to distance myself from involvement where possible.

I did write a devlog but editing it is work that I do not want to do right now, so I think you will forgive me if i skip out.

I might just end up merging it with Capability-based extension in Draupnir.

We'll see until next time.

That's all I have for this month's update. Thanks once again to my sponsors on GitHub and Ko-fi. I'll see you in the next update.