I do not dismiss the talented work done nor the attention. It is generous and you want to help a community. What I dismiss is the lack of interactions between SIGMA and the team. SIGMA is commercial, the team is not. You speak about lightroom; how much funds and ppl was pulled out into lightroom project ?
I'm logic and technician, building subroutines, applications, complex java and C# codes, sever communications and all. I know the problem, but I do it for myself. I'm my only referent/bank. I'm making virtual universes sized IRL like Alabama (so you might understand how a pain in the *** it can be). And actually it is working.
This is just a word from a mad one man army coder, visual studio guru, to a team of generous coders : Be careful gentlemen, you might be disappointed at the end, if an end is possible. Disappointed because what you want/hope/desire might not be really spot on/achieved. You guys need funds and cohesion and SIGMA should hire you in a cave to decipher, in the joy, the complex foveon datas. You need total synergy with ACTUAL foveon designers/mathematicians.
So in my head it is like trying to decipher enigma with a fork and a bean can. Macgyver style. With a lot of chance and time it might work but you know that you do not have this luxury. SIGMA might come with a total new design or component who invalidate your work. This what I'm trying to tell you.
The magic of life might also give the additional punch to the team, to prove me how wrong I am (and it might be my initial intention, who know ?
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To end this colossal non-photo related digression, here is some technician pov of Ithaca, my world (who might be finished in one year) :
NOTA: Now I cross my fingers that xpatUSA will be able to run it on his Jurassic computer
NOTA2: NEVER release "prototype" to the mass. Alpha test with friends, beta test with more friends and then release proper version (with real modern GUI!!!).