The wikipedia page for zena has been removed and restored with the following message stating that zena is not notable enough for inclusion in wikipedia:

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This is an interesting side effect to our low profile policy. Since we want to avoid releasing an immature product to many users too soon in order to keep the freedom to refactor code based on experience and to avoid lots of angry users because they lost important data. Yes I’m a little paranoid.

thought input

I must say that this news first got bad on my mood but then it gave me some input data to think about. What if ruby on rails had waited one or two more years before they started to make noise about their product ?

This would have had the great side effect to avoid the huge work to follow with rails development during the first years (2005,2006). Keeping up with rails at that time was quite painful. But this would also mean that I might never have started zena or zena would be using PHP. But most of all, the philosophy behind RoR would not have inspired me to build a CMS. I learned a lot with RoR, even if it was painful to follow up.

release soon, release often

It finally boils down to this simple rule. If you are scared to death that your tool might not live up to your users’ expectations, say it’s alpha, beta, immature, work in progress, freaking new or whatever makes sense but give your projects a chance to exist.

It’s really time to start making some noise !