diff --git a/dev/pelican-status-update.rst b/dev/pelican-status-update.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3b8ca27 --- /dev/null +++ b/dev/pelican-status-update.rst @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Pelican, 9 months later +####################### + +:tags: pelican, python, open source, nice story +:date: 25/07/2011 + +Back in October, I released `pelican `_, +a little piece of code I wrote to power this weblog. I had simple needs: I wanted +to be able to use my text editor of choice (vim), a vcs (mercurial) and +restructured text. I started to write a really simple blog engine +in something like a hundred python lines and released it on github. + +And people started contributing. I wasn't at all expecting to see people +interested in such a little piece of code, but it turned out that they were. +I refactored the code to make it evolve a bit more by two times and eventually, +in 9 months, got 49 forks, 139 issues and 73 pull requests. + +**Which is clearly awesome.** + +I pulled features such as translations, tag +clouds, integration with different services such as twitter or piwik, import +from dotclear and rss, fixed +a number of mistakes and improved a lot the codebase. This was a proof that +there is a bunch of people that are willing to make better softwares just for +the sake of fun. + +Thank you, guys, you're why I like open source so much.