Well, here it is: my first open source program

[hazel]

I never thought I'd get this far. And now I've got my baby packaged up in a tarball, I've suddenly got cold feet. Is this really the sort of thing you could put up on Freshmeat or Sourceforge?

So I thought I'd test the water by offering it to the forum first. What it is is a program that I've been using for a couple of months now to put customised buttonbars on my workspaces. I call it cinderella, because in pantomimes, Cinderella always has a sidekick called Buttons.

I can't attach it here because .tar.gz isn't a valid attachment suffix (though .zip files are, oddly enough) but if anyone would like to beta-test it for me and reassure me that it's worth making publicly available I can mail it to them.

[bryansmith]

Don't get cold feet about putting your stuff online. I have some code online and I really don't know what I'm doing. As I learn to write better code, I put the new changes back online. The code is pretty sloppy right now but as I continue to perfect my coding skills, the code improves. Putting it online helps me work on it in different places plus I get bugtracking (I use Google's code hosting btw).

Bryan

[bigtomrodney]

If you go back and check out how many Sourceforge projects haven't even submitted code yet I think you'll find that confidence

I'd love to see your code, if there's any help you need with testing I'd be glad to offer my services.

[geniuz]

you should indeed never hesitate to put your stuff online, me and a friend of mine coded a graphical calculator in perl for a school project...it was only about 400 lines of code. Yet we felt proud it worked and didn't hesitate a second putting it on the net, you could have quick look on sourceforge.net, its called: calcgui.

[darkrose0510]

Congrats on getting it somewhere near finished/usable! I have heaps of unfinished games/programs... keep saying I'll finish them one day.

[Tsarevich]

geniuz! Let me see your code. At what level do they teach you programming? For instance, they don't introduce us what it is really at this middle school level.

darkrose0510, I face the same problem. I posted in another post that internet, music, rubbish temp too much. I literally have a folder C Dumps in my home folder with three uncompleted projects. This is very little value.

[Tsarevich]

I would bear seeing a thousand laughing faces at my code if I could learn a bit from those seeing it.

[Lakshmipathi]

I've suddenly got cold feet. Is this really the sort of thing you could put up on Freshmeat or Sourceforge?

It's Great hear that you developed OSS project..
Don't get into cold feet ...I'm sure your Project will be useful for atleast one person or atleast for a student for his educational purpose- Just go ahead and post it in sourceforge or freshmeat site...

i got same feeling for my first OSS project...In fact i thought about deleting it completely from my desktop as i'm not sure about it's usefulness.

But now i got nearly 25 subcribers with more than 11K downloads ....

All the very best

[hazel]

I'd love to see your code, if there's any help you need with testing I'd be glad to offer my services.

OK. I've cheated and renamed my tarball as a zip file to get round the dumb rules this forum has about attachments (sorry, moderators ). You'll have to name it back to .tar.gz to unpack it.

Everyone has been so encouraging, I feel much better about it now.

[bigtomrodney]

If it compiles, it is good, if it boots up it is perfect.

It compiled perfectly and ran first time. I'm using a fairly standard Ubuntu install, probably just have build-essential (gcc, kernel headers) in terms of dev packages.

It ran fine and looked pretty good. I didn't have Thunar installed as I was testing it in Gnome. The only thing that scared me is I clicked the shutdown button...and boy did it shut down! No confirmation, just splash screen and out. I'm guessing that was the intention?