Early 2022 Update

[paarthenon]

Hello everyone, I want to start by thanking you all for using variant. I'm here to provide a little update. Over the past few months I have been experiencing health issues that have kept me from making the progress I would have liked. I've had to ration my typing, and recently have had to stop altogether. Sadly it's going to have to stay that way for the next few weeks.

I'll need to ask for a bit of your patience during this time. My health has been the primary delay behind 3.0, but I now have access to care and am optimistic about the project's progress upon my return. In the short term, I will be exploring the voice coding solutions that exist like talon. However, this has a steep learning curve so is not quite a drop-in replacement.

The project could benefit from some help. While contributors are and have been welcome, I have not made the path to contribute as easy as I could have. Going forward I will speak more openly in github issues about my plans and ideas, including the items remaining for the 3.0 release. I'll also lay out some information about the structure of the project and where different types of content should go.

I originally wanted to have the information ready for you to publish alongside this statement, but introducing that as a dependency has kept me from making this update for a couple of weeks as I juggled things. Let me say instead that I hope to have that for you soon, and in the mean time I will have voice dictation available to answer questions.

I appreciate your support.

[cwstra]

I know it's been a while since this post, but thought I'd poke it:
I've got a fair bit of thumb-twiddling time, so in the event you've got a todo list of some kind, I'd be happy to help.