It is essential to understand, what is really important for oneself.

One day I woke up and thought, that given the time frame, the progress of this project is not good enough. Especially, as I remembered, that the 3rd version of the project was a complete and utter feature creep mess.

So, I started to clean up the feature creep 2021 by limiting the software's functionality, in order to create a first release and to start containing the mess. Instead of finishing the basics regarding the school scheduling, the no-code editor and the Crisis Network project were introduced. Now I realise and have to admit, that this just contained the feature creep, but I need to clean it up. There are many none feature tasks, that I am working only on weekends, but this is ok, as I see these as different kind of maintenance jobs. It is OK when these take a lot of time, as long as these are slowly being done and create the next lower bar for the software's quality.

Especially the Crisis Network project caused issues. It is a canvas, that combines different optimization problems, in order to model and simulate a single and complex world. It can be thought as a game, where every component is an optimization problem. Instead of programming and solving small unrelated optimizations without any meaning, one could work on small projects, that add semantic meaning to an existing world. It is way to motivate one to work on something meaningful and not to just solve optimal symbol processing.

The Crisis Network will be done in the future, as the software is not ready to model space time as an optimization problem performance wise for now. Crisis Network showed, that alot is already possible, but every step required a lot of work, as many helper functions and fine-tuning are missing.

I also cancelled the project of providing a scheduler for schools in real life, as coordinating such a project with schools would require a lot of time and resources. Furthermore, I would first have to find a fitting school and the more I think about it, the more this seems to be out of scope for the Network project for now.

Instead, I am focusing on creating a proper optimization IDE and solving the advanced school scheduling problems. The optimization IDE aka code editor is required, so users can properly model the advanced school scheduling problems without using Java and Maven. The goal is to not just enable software developers to use the program, but to make the platform usable for domain experts, too. Only after this is, the Crisis Network will be attempted.