Re: [Thales] Requesting user contributions

[Andy Smith]

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 08:56:20PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> When I started to code Thales, I hoped that releasing it to the public
> would help to get contributions from users (scripts that use Thales).
> 
> However, thales has been out for nearly two years, and it still lacks
> a lot of good example scripts. I still have to answer those newbies
> questions like "how do I display the number of users on my network ?".
> Why ? because nearly all of you are either too lazy or too egoist to
> release your scripts.

The problem is that all uses we have made of Thales have been
wrapped in the rest of our web site and our services SQL backend
also.

To package it in a form that can be used outside of our network
basically means writing it all over again.

Since I have a list as long as my arm of more things I want to use
Thales and our services for, but have not yet had time to make a
start on, the question is:

- Shall I spend my spare time writing stuff for our network or;

- Shall I spend it taking stuff I already wrote and making it usable for
  other Thales users even though there will be zero thanks for that and
  constant requests for help from idiots who can't even install MySQL?

Sorry if that fits your definition of lazy.

Thanks a lot for your hard work on Thales and please keep up the
good work, but if it is starting to annoy you then please take a
break.