From: "ara.t.howard" Date: 2008-03-31T13:56:47+09:00 Subject: Re: punch-0.0.2 - i can has time tracking On Mar 30, 2008, at 8:35 PM, Rick Bradley wrote: > Not trying to be a *total* dick (which is, granted a losing battle for > me), ;-) no worries, i sometimes have the same problem... > but... seems like when release announcements are made to fairly > mainstream usenet groups that it's no longer a personal script but > it's software and people are going to expect the trappings (test > suites, changelogs, etc.) :-/ possibly. i've found though, through releasing a lot of software, that people rarely find useful what i think they will and find very useful things i'd almost call throwaway scripts. my rubyforge script was one such script which many people found useful. the beautify of open source is that the people that find it useful can either motivate me or do the work themselves. in the case of rubyforge ryan davis grabbed it and dumped a ton of effort into making a better package and has contributed a ton of features and bug fixes too. and, of course, most of what people would ask for is already there via the command- line and rubyforge.org's svn repo... it remains to be seen if people find punch useful - if they do you can expect the package to grow - otherwise not. in any case i wish more people would release small scripts they've written to perform useful personal tasks. there are not enough ruby *programs* in the world and too many libraries and frameworks if you ask me. cheers. ps. this is addressed generally not at you rick. a @ http://codeforpeople.com/ -- we can deny everything, except that we have the possibility of being better. simply reflect on that. h.h. the 14th dalai lama