where do you want to go?

[Leo Simons <ma...@leosimons.com>]

Hey gang,

Concern: projects that don't move will wither and die, and at the  
moment, we're
not really moving, or at least not fast enough to notice. This is the  
first
message to this mailing list in a month, and the last commit was  
approximately
a month ago, too.

On and off, I've talked about this a little bit with most of the  
participants, in
private. It seems everyone has a very plausible personal reason to  
not be
contributing that much at the moment or perhaps just not in the way  
they had
planned when we first started talking about doing this project about,  
oh, a year
ago.

So, this leads us to the question: what do y'all want to do?

If our shared answer is "well <x> and <y> and <z>, we're just a bit  
busy with
some other stuff right now, but we'll get to it", that's fine,  
there's not really
a rush or anything.

If our answer is "dunno", that's fine, and we can just get to work on  
figuring
that out, and the question becomes how to do *that*.

If the answer is "nothing", that's fine, too, and we can slowly and  
silently
close down again.

And there's other answers of course, too.

Which one is it for you?


cheers,


Leo

Re: where do you want to go?

[Leo Simons <ma...@leosimons.com>]

On Jun 8, 2007, at 7:58 PM, Leo Simons wrote:
> what do y'all want to do?
>
> If our shared answer is "well <x> and <y> and <z>, we're just a bit  
> busy with
> some other stuff right now, but we'll get to it", that's fine,  
> there's not really
> a rush or anything.
>
> If our answer is "dunno", that's fine, and we can just get to work  
> on figuring
> that out, and the question becomes how to do *that*.
>
> If the answer is "nothing", that's fine, too, and we can slowly and  
> silently
> close down again.
>
> And there's other answers of course, too.
>
> Which one is it for you?

For me, hacking on 3soup has been an almost permanent "I'll get to it  
tomorrow"
thing. As an example, that email I just sent sat in my draft folder  
for a week or
two.

(...)

What I liked most about this project idea initially was the huge  
opportunity to
combine some ideas and designs and goals from other projects I've  
worked on and
work on them at apache, of course with some cool people (that's  
you! :-)). Part of
that idea also was that I could do some of that work as a regular  
part of my day
job, since my employer seems to have a bit of a need for a project  
like this one...

But currently, it seems "day job" and associated mind set are taking  
me in a
direction that's a bit different. I haven't been doing much coding,  
for work that
is, for a while now and it doesn't look that will change soon. I keep  
meaning to
have some 'context switching' between "work think" and "hacker think"  
and be like
Neo - regular job during the day, hacker at night, but the context  
switch keeps
being regular job during the day, in the pub at night!

I hope to be moving house sometime soon-ish, and when I finish that  
it should
free up quite a bit of my time and energy, of which I figure some  
will go to
triplesoup, but that'll be a while. But then it is mid-summer, and  
based on
measurement of previous years I don't use my computer as much during the
summer :-).

cheers,

Leo