As you might have noticed on the main site, I quit my job last week and will be making a go of it as an independent software shop.

In the short term, this doesn't help Premake any. By necessity, I am going to be focused on getting my shop online and building up income. In the long term, the news is much better. As it stands now, on a good week I can log 6-8 hours of nights and weekends work. That's not very much, and it gets split between Premake, the website, and all of the other little projects I've got going on. Once I roll off, that jumps to 40-plus hours and the opportunity to knock off big chunks of work at a time.

I'd like to assure everyone that, while it is not my immediate priority, I've put in a lot of hard work getting Premake where it is today and I don't intend to see it falter now. It is an integral part of my own projects. So I will be trying to, at the very least, get together enough bug fixes and apply enough patches for a series of 4.2.x releases. I have also started working on documentation to help people who would like to contribute get a jump start, so hopefully we'll see more feature patches coming in. And Visual Studio 2010 support is still top of my list for new features.

So: expect to see a drop-off while I do the ramp up work for the business. I will still be around to answer questions, and in the long run I will be around even more.

And if you ever considered donating to Premake, now would be a great time.