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> But then again, 99% of my interaction with maintaining and adding content to the Internet Archive, I do through the API, and specifically through a python com
by laichzeit0 12y ago
> But then again, 99% of my interaction with maintaining and adding content to the Internet Archive, I do through the API, and specifically through a python command-line interface we've had a developer working on for over a year
Although completely understandable, this goes against the principle of "eating your own dog food". If more people used the stuff they created, especially the power-user type of features, I suspect software would be orders of magnitude better in general.
- textfiles 12y agoI perhaps wasn't clear. There's two different major projects that I've been interacting with - the front UI design, and the python client for interacting with the Internet Archive's APIs. I've been definitely "eating the dogfood" as regards the Python client for over a year, with dozens of changes, fixes and improvements being done. I've been "eating the dogfood" in terms of the V2 UI by using it, and making additions and changes to my uploads to work better in the new interface, as well as submitting dozens of requests to the dev team about things I've encountered. So I'm pretty full of dog food here.