Eric S. Raymond in the famous essay, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, states, Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers. This advice came from Eric’s experience of managing an open source project as well as his observations of how the Linux kernel was developed. But why? Why release often? Do I really have to listen to my customers? They whine all the time! To question this advice is sacrilege to those who have this philosophy so deeply ingrained. It’s obvious! Or is it? When I was asked this in...
We could have done better. That’s the thought that goes through my mind when looking back on this past year and reflecting on NuGet. Overall, I think we did pretty well with the product. Nobody died from using it, we received a lot of positive feedback, and users seem genuinely happy to use the product. So why start off with a negative review? It’s just my way. If you can’t look back on every project you do and say to yourself “I could have done better”, then you weren’t paying attention and you weren’t learning. For example, why...