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kovidgoyal · 08-22-2009, 12:08 PM

I should say that calibre has a very active development community, with lots of contributions from third party developers. As well as a very active user community as evidenced by these forums. I don't develop calibre for the money, though donations do allow me to spend a larger fraction of my time on it.

For an incomplete list of the contributions to calibre, see http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/wiki/D...t#Contributors

Also I note that for calibre 0.7, calibre will become database backend independent and plugin based. At that time it will be considerably easier to implement this (and a lot of more important) features. I'm not saying I will implement it then, but it should become trivially easy for some one who wants to, to write a plugin.

EDIT: Also for a good feel of how much of calibre's functionality has been coded by people other than me, just look at Preferences->Plugins to see how many people have contributed plugins. Also I think about 70% of calibre's recipes have been contributed by users.

08-22-2009, 12:08 PM	#107
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,438 Karma: 27757438 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	I should say that calibre has a very active development community, with lots of contributions from third party developers. As well as a very active user community as evidenced by these forums. I don't develop calibre for the money, though donations do allow me to spend a larger fraction of my time on it. For an incomplete list of the contributions to calibre, see http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/wiki/D...t#Contributors Also I note that for calibre 0.7, calibre will become database backend independent and plugin based. At that time it will be considerably easier to implement this (and a lot of more important) features. I'm not saying I will implement it then, but it should become trivially easy for some one who wants to, to write a plugin. EDIT: Also for a good feel of how much of calibre's functionality has been coded by people other than me, just look at Preferences->Plugins to see how many people have contributed plugins. Also I think about 70% of calibre's recipes have been contributed by users. Last edited by kovidgoyal; 08-22-2009 at 01:07 PM.