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