Re: Publishing Open Source Stuff

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 16:00:56 +1100, "Roger Lascelles"
<rogerlasAToptusnet.com.au> wrote:

> Unless your projects hit the imagination and needs of others, not much can happen. Bits of
>incomplete software or libraries are low in value these days unless they do
>something special.

I can agree there. The long-term project I mentioned is something I
think can have some application in a lot of places assuming it can be
finished. And sourceforge doesn't even show anything like it.

>Why not zip them up and put them on your personal webpage with nice clear
>descriptions of purpose, stage of completion, tools required, etc and invite
>people to download them and email you ?

I plan on doing that when I can get all the stuff rounded up.

>Programming complete applications to a high standard is tiring, long term
>work and your team has to see it through to completion over weeks, months or
>years. So many open source projects produce unusable slop. Documentation
>takes a lot of time and rewrites, but your work cannot be used by others
>without it. Every code release has to go through final testing, help file
>updates, web page update, installer building, uploading - just as much work
>as commercial code releases: otherwise its rubbish.

I definitely agree there. There's a time element involved, especially
on a long term, complex thing. Then there's always the question of
whether you can get the people that will share your strategic vision
for the app.

>I spent a lot of spare time developing a program over 2+ years.
>That satisfaction is my entire reward.

Yep I know that feeling from when the TP7 apps made the rounds. It's
just that no one is going to be interested in that kind of stuff. So
a lot of it depends on whether I'm going to have the time to do the
port on them to the new interface and do it properly.
.

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