Finally, a new release..Ashkelon v0.9
Posted by Eitan Sat, 04 Feb 2006 17:16:00 GMT
Over the last year, here and there when I've had an idea or a little time I've changed something or added a feature to ashkelon. Much time has passed and I hadn't cut a release. For a while I really wanted to finish idea x or feature y "before making another release."
That was a bad idea. Yesterday I decided that was enough. It'd been way too long since I'd last published a release. I spent a few hours updating the documentation, testing the release, updating the documentation again, testing the release again until I was satisfied.
Finally, version 0.9 is out. Sure, a number of features are only half finished, but at least others can play with them. I mean they've been in CVS for a while. But few bother to get that close to a project, I admit.
Just because I'm not spending much time developing ashkelon does not mean that I'm not using it. For my purposes, ashkelon has been feature complete since 2001, since before I even considered open-sourcing it.
I use it on a regular basis when I code and have been doing so for five years now. That's an awful long time. People should know when to give up. I think this five-year mark is a sign that if this tool has not gotten any traction by now, it probably never will.
What saddens me the most is that even the idea itself has met failure. As far as I know people are ignorant of the idea, the notion that a better system for api documentation is a database application. In the ruby world we've yet to see rdoc implemented as a rails app. Maybe some day someone will write one.
