@dalias@ariadne@sertonix You're obviously right, as evidenced by the lack of progress for Alpine users in the past few years, that perfect is the enemy of the good. At the same time, I don't want to offer yet another half-working piece of software that people are only differently unhappy with. There's a real domain issue to solve, and I want to have it solved.
Like everyone else, you'll say, with a link to https://xkcd.com/927/ ; but I think I've been pretty successful at that so far, with other software I have written.
Maybe service management is different, because it's just too complex to be solved at once; maybe the tooling needs to be done incrementally. But I need at least an idea of what kind of engine I should be aiming for, what kind of guarantees should be prioritized.
@dalias@ariadne@sertonix You're obviously right, as evidenced by the lack of progress for Alpine users in the past few years, that perfect is the enemy of the good. At the same time, I don't want to offer yet another half-working piece of software that people are only differently unhappy with. There's a real domain issue to solve, and I want to have it solved.
Gregory's Server
@dalias @ariadne @sertonix You're obviously right, as evidenced by the lack of progress for Alpine users in the past few years, that perfect is the enemy of the good. At the same time, I don't want to offer yet another half-working piece of software that people are only differently unhappy with. There's a real domain issue to solve, and I want to have it solved.
Like everyone else, you'll say, with a link to https://xkcd.com/927/ ; but I think I've been pretty successful at that so far, with other software I have written.
Maybe service management is different, because it's just too complex to be solved at once; maybe the tooling needs to be done incrementally. But I need at least an idea of what kind of engine I should be aiming for, what kind of guarantees should be prioritized.
@dalias @ariadne @sertonix You're obviously right, as evidenced by the lack of progress for Alpine users in the past few years, that perfect is the enemy of the good. At the same time, I don't want to offer yet another half-working piece of software that people are only differently unhappy with. There's a real domain issue to solve, and I want to have it solved.