I like the idea, but I'd like to better understand how the money is going to be used on the Kickstarter page. Is it basically to spend, say, a month of focused work to get the major girders of emacsy ready to go so the rest can be iterated upon and crystalized? It's clearly not enough to fund the entire effort to the point of having something usable, stable, and with adoption (which would require working with the requirements of other projects), but I get the sense that wasn't really the idea.
Hi, I've updated the page to include my plan. Yes, this is about laying the foundation for Emacsy. However, I expect to deliver on all the features I laid out such that they are usable and documented. There are a number of other features I would like to see in the future, so I expect I'll be working on it and maintaining it for sometime into the future. The funding is essentially to encourage and justify that it's worth my time to go the extra mile in making something usable for everyone instead of just making it for myself, which would be a much easier job.
Agreed. You have sections 'Introduction', 'Vision', 'Motivation', 'Goals', 'Anti-Goals', 'Emacsy Features' and 'How you can help?'. You're missing 'Plan'.
Fair enough. My plan is to work out in the open on github, part-time this Summer. I'll report noteworthy builds and solicit feedback. I believe that by the deadline I can produce a usable and documented Emacsy library that includes all the features mentioned above, and maybe even some features I haven't mentioned. That should provide an excellent foundation for this project to thrive after the deadline, and I expect to maintain it for sometime after that.
