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Message: [QUOTE="Joshua Cranmer, post: 3614605"] I've never done a 1.0 release on any project, mostly because I've never planned out any of my personal projects before starting them and I change my mind so many times the code's unbearable. I do have several 0.* releases: a Java decompiler that I'm about to start a bottom-to-top rewrite (with planning this time!), a TB extension that integrates mailing lists as a new account type, as well as a python TextTwist clone. I have also produced a full read-only database library where I had to completely reverse engineer the database specification based on existing code and, at one point, decompile my own code because I discovered an undocumented "feature" of hg. How long did that take me? Not even half a year, most of which is because I have a limited amount of time to work on stuff and cycle all my projects. If you want to see that code, it's here: <[URL]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424446[/URL]> (don't let the diff part throw you off. I wrote it by starting new files and then replacing the old ones). 1,453 lines for my database reader, 1,072 for my WIP listarchive extension, and 6,082 for my WIP decompiler, all of which I have been working on in the past year alone (disclaimer: this is total file size, although much of my code is on the sparser side of comments). A 5K LOC project should be able to make a 1.0 release within a year if it is well laid-out beforehand, even if only one person is working on it. If you search for "mork reader", you will find a posting I have on the subject as the second entry. Not bad for a project which currently only exists as a patch to existing code. "listarchive" brings my page up as the first result and my blog post on the subject as the second result. Total age of project? Three months. But something else to note is that Google results are somewhat biased. I'm sure that hosting a project on sourceforge will put it on higher results that hosting it on xxxfreehosting.com. If I have an extremely WIP project and an internal library show up at the top of the results, does that mean they're "world class"? No. It just means that they are more visible than other projects of the same name. Does gutting entire modules of major programs and replacing them with working code count? 'Cause I have that covered fairly well. [/QUOTE]

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