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> Firstly, there are basically no potential colaborators for the areas i work on That's correct. On the other hand, this is a network effect, and the Nest, in
by pmeunier 6y ago
> Firstly, there are basically no potential colaborators for the areas i work on
That's correct. On the other hand, this is a network effect, and the Nest, in its current incarnation, is only 3 weeks old. It's getting better every day, though.
The two main features I'm working on at the moment are:
- CI/CD. This is almost ready to go, it is "sort of" working. One issue that I fixed recently is that Pijul versions are tricky to compute: change A, followed by B, is the same state (guaranteed by design) as B, followed by A. Our version identifiers handle that now (try `pijul log --state`).
- Social features, like discoverability, recommendation of collaborations. We're really just getting started at this, and figuring out what works best.
I should add that until two weeks ago, the Nest would stop accepting connections at random times, or crash. It's much more stable now, and we can finally think of adding features.
> Secondly, it is much less mature ass a platform
There are tags for issues. You can configure them in the "Admin" page of your repositories. They're not used very much for Pijul itself, because most issues so far have been closed within minutes or hours after their creation.
> Which is a mind twise of an idea. But they say they solved it, so nice.
As one of the authors, I can tell you it wasn't easy to get everything to work together, especially for conflicts. But the theory is clear and sound now (and I have good confidence that the implementation is, too): any two patches that could have been created independently can be pushed to a remote repository independently from each other.
- ssivark 6y agoSounds super exciting; thanks for pushing the boundaries on something new and potentially so much better! Please don’t get discouraged by comments pointing out the current limitations of the platform — it just means that the core ideas are interesting/good enough for people to bother critiquing the ancillary aspects. Good tools & platforms take time to build and polish, so kudos and keep at it.
- pmeunier 6y ago> Please don’t get discouraged by comments pointing out the current limitations of the platform Thanks for the kind message. I totally agree, and didn't take the comment as an offense at all (the reason I reminded the relative youth of Pijul is that I know from experience that some people expect Pijul to have many more users than it currently has).
- oxinabox 6y agoExciting. I definitely looked at Nest 6months or so ago as well. I think I might remember it crashing then. Cool to hear it's had an overhaul. Definitely excited that things are continuing to progress. I really wish I had capacity to try it out for a new project. But that would require two units of capacity, both having time for a new project, and having time to do it on a new platform. Still, I can dream.