27 Dec 2001 whytheluckystiff   » (Master)

not a big man on campus here, but i feel like it since rasmus
jumped in on the talk! ;D
Waldo: sure. ska does exist. but ska is not about listening to an album. it's about being there at the show with the clothes, the brass, the scene, having your own private skank. i'm trying to emphasis what i feel is happening in our world here. times change and we've got to adapt, right? i mean i see your point, but i'm not as much a fan of the relics of an empire. i'd rather be in the empire itself.
i guess that's why i joined the ruby-talk list. its activity is inspiring. that project is definitely thriving. it's nice to even have new CVS commits almost daily. it's a candy language and very tasty at that! and although i can do no more than reminisce on some of the old (now smoldering) projects I once loved, a certain vein flows into a newer project with life.
rasmus: your individual thoughts concerning community expectations and project size are wonderful. it's the tortoise and the hare, right? :D slow and steady wins the race. so when is the race over? when is the child fully grown into a man and later buried? an actor is lucky because he knows when the play is over so he can bow and let the curtain close. we go until the curtain closes while we are performing! applause is stifled when the act has not closed yet. but it will, it will.
i think of litestep. and how its later revisions slowed as new dev teams came in. the dev teams have slowed to the point where they don't even have time to appoint new devs! and they've got thousands of active users clamouring. they've been stuck on a 24.6 release for two years. at one point we got close, but the devs withdrew. capable people will not always pull through even on a small project. there's something about having the father of a project around.
i don't think free software will die, but i don't have qualms entertaining the idea. it is a possibility that supporters would shrink to the head of a pin. i have heard some recent speak that goes something like this: come on! where is everyone?! get coding! i would say that demand (and criticism more so!) will not encourage developers. seems like that would worry other people too?

Latest blog entries     Older blog entries

New Advogato Features

New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.

Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.

If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!