Feeling a little off the track now
1. The project seems to be stalled. Back in september fluffy said 6 weeks is the maximum time needed to get the db out. I am yet to find how to use it, im sure half of the people here are only able to use monero because of mymonero.
2. Without a usable client, the speculation thread is a joke, new people are not entering and we are buying and selling between ourselves.
3. The quality of posts has gone down a lot for dev 'smooth' He does not feel like a dev at all, constantly arguing with other coin people when it will clearly bear no fruit. Can anybody change our opinion about Monero? No, then how can we change someone else's?
Feels like this is going nowhere, its been an year and we have what? a db to put the chain off RAM? Please dont pull out that donation card on me, Satoshi, BCNext worked without donations even because they believed in themselves. Does our dev team has such confidence? Or are they doing just a task in their pass time as a hobby?
The devs owe us nothing but there is a reason they are the leaders, i dont see any passion
my two millinero
1. No, in
this comment I said that it required 6 man weeks worth of effort, not that it would take 6 weeks. Depending on your resource availability, constraints, and inter-dependencies, you can cram 6 man-weeks into 3 days or into 6 months. Actual timelines are unrelated to the timeframes used to estimate costs.
2. Is MyMonero not usable? How many speculators do you know that will willingly run full nodes, regardless of how pretty the client is?
3. I think smooth has posted on things he is passionate about, including obvious scams that he observes. I don't think he has any obligation to act one way or another, he is not the public representative of a company, he is an individual with his own thoughts, feelings, and ideas.
I'm not sure what you mean by there not being passion. Look at the main github a month ago and today and make a comparison (output snipped for legibility) -
[ ric->bitmonero ]$ git checkout c01069f
Note: checking out 'c01069f'.
HEAD is now at c01069f... fixed English word list issue: 'launchpad' should be 'ourselves'
[ ric->bitmonero ]$ cloc ./
926 text files.
914 unique files.
152 files ignored.
http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.62 T=5.89 s (131.8 files/s, 50722.1 lines/s)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language files blank comment code
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUM: 776 28801 60989 208781
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ ric->bitmonero ]$ git checkout master
Previous HEAD position was c01069f... fixed English word list issue: 'launchpad' should be 'ourselves'
Switched to branch 'master'
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
[ ric->bitmonero ]$ cloc ./
986 text files.
971 unique files.
164 files ignored.
http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.62 T=5.09 s (161.8 files/s, 60926.7 lines/s)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language files blank comment code
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUM: 824 30444 62837 217059
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pretty sure the 48 new files, 1 848 new lines of comments, and 8 278 new lines of code could be considered as the result of "passion" - and that completely excludes the blockchainDB branch or the work being done on 0MQ etc.
taking money from core team feels so good 
