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Originally Posted by tompe
But you might have to branch the project to include your solution.
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Nope. You'll just have to provide bugfixes and support for your changes:
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Let me put it this way: I already spend all the time I possibly can fixing calibre bugs and implementing new features. The list of new features I want to implement is huge and all of them are demanded by far more (though less vocal) people. I know that implementing this feature will increase my support burden. IOW, this is not going to happen, unless someone else implements it *and* commits to handling all the support requests is generates.
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Originally Posted by tompe
Maybe the problem is that the project is associated with just one person. It might be hard to get more developers. And the request for donations does not help in getting more developers for what it says is "this is my project" and does not really stimulate other people to participate.
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Not really. I seem to recall Kovid mentioning a lot of the conversion algorithms by other people and not him. I believe someone has mentioned this before, if people really want this feature and are not willing to code themselves, they can raise a bounty so someone else would have the motivation to do so. Unfortunately, doing it that way would probably mean a fork of the project as I don't foresee whoever wrote the code staying around for bugfixes and support once the bounty has been collected.