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, and hopefully they’ll be the impetus to my writing more focused posts later.
Generally, of course, I’m basically split between trying to build my company and trying to maintain Puppet. It’s an interesting struggle, because the company exists to support Puppet, and Puppet exists because of how I’ve been able to fund its development through the company. I don’t think this struggle is ever going to go away, and it’s going to get even more interesting as I do other projects.
The company is going pretty well — we’ve get three employees (me, Teyo, and Andrew), and we’re apparently managing to get paid enough to make it through. We are providing support, consulting, training, and some custom development, all focused on Puppet and how best to use it.
The product, however, is doing even better. Its popularity seems to be exploding, and just in the last few months we’re getting a ton of developer contributions. Every week I hear from a company looking for employees with Puppet expertise, and I now rarely meet people who are in the industry and haven’t heard of Puppet.
We’ll be releasing 0.24.6 in the next week or so, and even though it’s only been three months since the last release, this one is looking to be a really large release with a bunch of new bug fixes but even more new functionality. We’re also making good progress on the mythical 0.25 release — all of the necessary plumbing is done, and it actually seems likely that it’ll be out this year. Then we’ll just have to struggle with maintaining stable and dev releases at the same time, which will be an interesting challenge.
Ok, that’s our short update. Now I’m just going to act like I’ve been posting frequently for a while, and I’ll just post what I can, when I can. One thing I’ve decided to do is to more clearly make this “my” blog as opposed to the “Puppet” blog. This means I’m going to try to talk more about my other interests, like random technology, cycling, entrepreneurship, and other stuff.
Talk to you soon, hopefully.
Congratulations, Luke!
Keep up the great work – you are an inspiration to many of us!!
Interesting post and I really like your take on the issue. I know have a clear idea on what this matter is all about. Thank you so much for the update.
Great read. I enjoyed reading your post and I like your take on the issue. Thanks for updating us..