Comments on: Working on It

By: Allan Odgaard

Allan Odgaard — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:18:32 +0000

Bill: Shawn already made a point out of pointing out that there had only been one new post since this one, and I have repeatedly said pretty much the same thing in these comments, that I personally is just not good at this stuff, and I am working on having someone else do it, and that so far it is not working out well, but I am giving it time…

I am closing comments now, because this is getting repetitive.

Boris: I have a twitter account, but I never use it. I may have found a format that works for me with SIGPIPE 13, but otherwise writing to strangers is just not natural for me (as I also think I have written a few times before).

By: Boris

Boris — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:56:54 +0000

Allan,

I do not want to suggest anything that would make your life harder or TM2 release further, but I think a great way to let people know that you are alive is twitter. Try it you (if you have time of course ;))

Boris

By: Bill Atkinson

Bill Atkinson — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:51:21 +0000

Wow, seriously? You post saying you're going to communicate more, someone correctly says "you're not communicating more" and you lay into them? Really?

My recommendation: punt back to the 1.5 source code, make a few easy improvements, and ship it as 2.0. Everybody has an upgrade, nobody had to pay to upgrade to 2.0, everyone's happy.

Then go back to the years-in-the-making TextMate Pro Gold Edition 3000. But stop promising and not delivering, whether it's 2.0 releases, early alphas, or blog posts.

By: Allan Odgaard

Allan Odgaard — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:37:45 +0000

It might sound nice but seriously, what the hell is the point of posting “still working on it” every other week?¹ And what about this and last week, productivity has been really bad. So should I post “not working on it” for that period?²

Also, my comment from 3 weeks ago mentions roughly 700 commits, and the entire point of this blog post was to say that I am still working on it even though I don’t write about it (I will be sure to post when I don’t work on it anymore)!

It is not in my nature to write about this stuff!!! That is why I am trying to pay someone else to do it, but that isn’t as easy as it may sound, as the lack of blog posts show…

If you want to know I am alive, I am trying to post more frequently to my other blog. It is not really about TextMate, I plan to write about why I write there and not here, but I probably will not get that post written anytime soon (I can’t even water my plants on schedule).

¹ Rhetorical question, no need to answer.
² Rhetorical question, no need to answer.

By: Josh West

Josh West — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:59:15 +0000

While I agree that you don't need to do bi-weekly updates it has been almost two months since you posted this message and a quick update would be nice, even if that update was nothing more than a one sentence "Yup, I'm still working on it"

By: thiago

thiago — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:16:38 +0000

I must say at EU 39, it was a deal, and Id pay it again for a solid upgrade.

By: Neal

Neal — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:31:18 +0000

would not have any problem whatsoever paying for version 2.0.

By: Jason W

Jason W — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:12:18 +0000

I just wanted to say thanks for the hard work. TextMate is a fantastic application–I use it constantly for writing in LaTeX.

By: Andy Ferra

Andy Ferra — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:19:38 +0000

BTW, that is NOT intended to stir up a hornet's nest. It just for the sake of discussion.

By: Andy Ferra

Andy Ferra — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:07:48 +0000

For those who care, here's a great example of delayed product PR done especially well.