There are plenty of people in our industry (software development) who advise to fail early and fail often. This is a story of such a project.<\/p>\n
The OSTD is a really cool idea: get free translations, or at least get started on them. I never pushed it too hard but I developed it to the point where the fundamental features worked. And I waited to see if anyone would use it. As far as I know almost noone did.<\/p>\n
Eventually I translated two of my own relatively popular open source apps using the OSTD hoping that when people see there is a 10% complete translation in their language – that will encourage them to fix it up, making them a contributor to my project. That didn’t happen either. You can see the red lines for Asunder<\/a> and ISO Master<\/a>.<\/p>\n Like so many others I sometimes preach fail early and often, and I’m glad I practice it as well. Even knowing that failure is a required part of the process of developing great things – it’s still annoying. Especially when you don’t understand what the problem is. Oh well, writing this post was my way to vent.<\/p>\n The OSTD has failed, I am finally admitting it to myself and to everyone else :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are plenty of people in our industry (software development) who advise to fail early and fail often. This is a story of such a project. The OSTD is a really cool idea: get free translations, or at least get started on them. I never pushed it too hard but I developed it to the … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-andrew","4":"post-1073","6":"format-standard","7":"category-ostd","8":"category-safeforseneca"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}