As I spent all last week rewriting a big part of Old School, the details of how that piece of software are swapped into my brain. So I'm going to focus there for a while, to do some things that should be done but require a comfort level that I don't usually have wrt this fairly complex piece of software. #
Old School returns more data about what files it built.#
The number of secs it returned previously was not accurate. Now the number of seconds is closer to reality. Old School isn't quite as fast as it used to appear. #
It returns the version of Old School. This is helpful for everyone to debug wtf is going on. Sometimes we're running an old version. #
It also returns the head-level atts from your OPML file. It's a way to do a reality check if you're trying to debug weird behavior. Maybe something was wrong in your head level atts? It's worth checking out. #
The way to go about it is to post an item to on the RFC issues page. #
If people want to see it, they will. The other option, spamming other people's messages is exactly what we don't want. It's the equivalent of the rule at BloggerCon where people weren't allowed to talk about their own products unless invited to by the discussion leader. In this case the DL is the person who started the RFC. It's not okay to volunteer a pointer to your project in response to an RFC. You could politely and humbly send an email. But please don't overdo it. Spam is spam and no likes it. #
This has to be a hard line, because if it's not, if this product is able to grow, it will eventually devolve into something like Twitter where almost everyone all the time is trying to be heard. Nothing wrong with that, I love Twitter, but that won't work for a collegial developer community, as the one this is and will stay. #
You must know that I've been through it all. I'm not particularly open-minded about this stuff. I love it when people put out their ideas, and it gives us away to connect with other products, or other users, or help each other have a more powerful environment to use. #
As I spent all last week rewriting a big part of Old School, the details of how that piece of software are swapped into my brain. So I'm going to focus there for a while, to do some things that should be done but require a comfort level that I don't usually have wrt this fairly complex piece of software. #
Old School returns more data about what files it built.#
The number of secs it returned previously was not accurate. Now the number of seconds is closer to reality. Old School isn't quite as fast as it used to appear. #
It returns the version of Old School. This is helpful for everyone to debug wtf is going on. Sometimes we're running an old version. #
It also returns the head-level atts from your OPML file. It's a way to do a reality check if you're trying to debug weird behavior. Maybe something was wrong in your head level atts? It's worth checking out. #
The way to go about it is to post an item to on the RFC issues page. #
If people want to see it, they will. The other option, spamming other people's messages is exactly what we don't want. It's the equivalent of the rule at BloggerCon where people weren't allowed to talk about their own products unless invited to by the discussion leader. In this case the DL is the person who started the RFC. It's not okay to volunteer a pointer to your project in response to an RFC. You could politely and humbly send an email. But please don't overdo it. Spam is spam and no likes it. #
This has to be a hard line, because if it's not, if this product is able to grow, it will eventually devolve into something like Twitter where almost everyone all the time is trying to be heard. Nothing wrong with that, I love Twitter, but that won't work for a collegial developer community, as the one this is and will stay. #
You must know that I've been through it all. I'm not particularly open-minded about this stuff. I love it when people put out their ideas, and it gives us away to connect with other products, or other users, or help each other have a more powerful environment to use. #