Monthly Archives: October 2008
Building a Puppet Roadmap
We’ve had a Roadmap for a while, but it’s pretty simplistic, and I haven’t had enough of a plan to be able to reasonably maintain it. In our call today, though, we came up with a pretty clear plan for what we’re going to do next, when we’re going to do it, and what version numbers it will have. Here’s a summary of what we decided (which I’ll then be importing into the roadmap document, where it will actually be maintained). Continue reading
Project vs. Company (and a bit of me)
Strangely, I’ve heard complaints that I’m focusing too much on the company and not enough on the project, and as a result the product is suffering. I find this strange because the project doesn’t pay my bills, feed my children, or buy my beer, the company does, and without those things, the project itself couldn’t exist. If, instead, I had taken some corporate sysadmin job, I’d have been spending maybe 5-10 hours a week on Puppet, instead of between 10 and 60 hours a week like I’ve been doing for the last three and a half years. This, I think, is the thing that people tend to forget about open source — yes, you can make money doing open source, but in doing so you almost always put yourself in conflict between making money and writing code. Continue reading
The story of the missing apps
Looks like we found a reason for the missing apps: Rather than a sinister plot, it turns out that Google has updated the Market with new software. Any application that didn’t meet the requirements of the new Android Market software … Continue reading
A Google Phone
As have many geeks, I’ve been considering the iPhone, but I’ve been really happy with T-Mobile as a company — they’re willing to unlock my phones, they don’t mind if I change my contract often, and I generally just haven’t … Continue reading
A Short Update
There’s no way to catch up for the last four months or so of not posting at all, so I’m not really going to try. Instead I’ll just introduce a few of the topics that are taking my brain space, … Continue reading
Luke lives!
Yes, I’ve finally posted again, as unlikely as that seems. My blog has been in need of transitioning for the last few months (it was being hosted by Spike and he needed the server back), and it’s taken me this … Continue reading