@lazarus @ebassi well the reasonable time thing is the issue for me.. while I got involved with @pidgin in 2003.. I took it over in January of 2016 to get 3.0 finished... We're 2 months away from that being 10 years ago and all I have to show for it is 4 experimental releases that I don't even recommend for third party protocol developers because the API is still too unstable...
If it's not obvious I've been reflecting on this stuff a lot lately and questioning whether or not to continue.