Release moratorium until further notice

[Brian Rice]

I'll try to set up a CMS/blog on the site and just do things there.

Working with system administration tasks to get the new site set up  
has been a real chore and beyond my usual capacity for interest,  
hence the delay there.

On Mar 30, 2006, at 2:04 PM, Pupeno wrote:

> Hello Brian,
> If I were you I would also make this statement very clear on  
> Slate's web site
> and instead of releases fill the news with your progress,  
> particularly new
> features and big enhancements.
> Most of us when we look at a project the first thing we notice is  
> if there
> wasn't a release recently and not having one is a bad sign (there are
> thousands of hopelessly dead projects out there).
> Just my two cents.
>
> On Thursday, 30 de March de 2006 19:14, Brian Rice wrote:
>> I've added a top-level blurb to that effect on the website, since I
>> am not inclined to perform packaging activities lately, and would
>> like to work at a faster pace.
>>
>> This will at least help explain the lack of a release since last
>> August. That said, our effective version number has climbed
>> drastically since 0.3.5 and I may just push ahead for a while until I
>> get something relatively mature.
>>
>> A factor in this decision of mine is a distinct lack of feedback from
>> users; it seems like everyone LIKES Slate, but stops using it after a
>> while because it's not convenient enough. So from my standpoint, it's
>> easier to just hack on it and disregard public opinion than to try to
>> crank out more frequent releases in the hope that someone will pay
>> more attention.
> My problem was that I couldn't find anything easy enough to do in  
> Slate for my
> newbiness at that time, so, stopping releases and moving faster my  
> actually
> be the right thing to do, even for us, dormant slate users :)

--
-Brian
http://tunes.org/~water/brice.vcf

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