Geeking. Skip it.

[noahgibbs]

I released some stuff on my SourceForge project a bit ago. Nothing that's all that new and spiffy to the crowd that uses my CVS repository -- they get what I'm using with a delay of days or less. But some pretty significant changes to the Phantasmal code, and a big chunk of documentation that hadn't been easily available as a single package before. The documentation is almost all original now -- I don't know of any challenger for having written more DGD documentation, and in time, I may be able to say the same of LPC.

Y'know what's hard to take? The silence you get after a release, when you've put the finished product out and you're just waiting for people to discover it. You announce it where it's supposed to be announced, you put it where it's supposed to be downloadable, you test it a bit and you wait. It's like fishing, sort of. SourceForge makes this worse by delaying download statistics for two days -- when the weekend's over, I'll know whether anybody is out there right now downloading my newly-announced release. Since it's a whole new couple of packages, there isn't anybody who got automatically notified when the release goes out, as there is for the older, established stuff.

Y'know what'll be harder to take? The same silence when I release the next iteration of the established stuff, probably this weekend.

Comments

[ravenslost.livejournal.com]

Sounds like that break in time between finishing the reading and the discussion. During which you find out whether your audience was spell bound or sleeping.

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yeah, rather like that. Except that the story took a month or six to read and the pause lasts for two days :-)

[ravenslost.livejournal.com]

Not that in certain, specific, situations sleeping should be taken as a *negative* response. *cough, cough*

I should have been more detailed in that thought. I was thinking of a reading of a piece of a play, or a story. There was nothing worse in playwriting groups than to have your piece read just prior to a break.

Firstly as you you'd loose access to people's knee jerk responses. Secondly as you sat on pins and needles through out the whole break.

I must be a masochist. I miss that.