You know what I'm going to say, right? This is HN, we have but one great commandment, which we repeat like parrots!
Ship it tomorrow! ;)
Yes, you have overlooked something important, there will be something to be embarrassed by -- whether it turns up next week or next decade -- and we'll all have a good laugh. Don't sweat it. And don't worry that the thing isn't finished; the kind of geeks who might sign on at this stage like unfinished things; that is why they can't resist reinventing the wheel. Plus, it doesn't have to be finished to give people ideas, which is half the point. You are ready to start spreading the news; your writeup says as much.
The public repository beckons!
(Frankly, this sounds like a great experiment, although I would never be too quick to predict the end of the ops department. ;)
I agree completely. I just need to close the loop, so that people who use it are inspired to add to it, rather than frustrated trying to understand it. Once I can provide a trivial example of using it that makes sense, I'll ship. I can promise you I'm not holding out for some ideal!
I also shouldn't predict the end of the ops department, until I've had it running in production with a significant number of users.
I think it would be better to say- my goal is to have the ops department working on really interesting stuff, rather than shepherding a fleet of servers, every one of which has a different configuration.
Ship it tomorrow! ;)
Yes, you have overlooked something important, there will be something to be embarrassed by -- whether it turns up next week or next decade -- and we'll all have a good laugh. Don't sweat it. And don't worry that the thing isn't finished; the kind of geeks who might sign on at this stage like unfinished things; that is why they can't resist reinventing the wheel. Plus, it doesn't have to be finished to give people ideas, which is half the point. You are ready to start spreading the news; your writeup says as much.
The public repository beckons!
(Frankly, this sounds like a great experiment, although I would never be too quick to predict the end of the ops department. ;)