I suggest you make a list of your projects and then put them in order of what you want to do most to what you want to do least. Take into account the fun factor.
Once you have your list you are all set.
Perhaps you are reminding me that I'm under no obligation to do stuff that isn't fun
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I'm aware of that, but I also have these crazy notions about what I'd like to see happen, and so I worry.
I'm thinking I might use this thead to describe various things I'm either working on or thinking about working on, and maybe someone will get inspired to take some of them on.
One thing that's certainly fairly low on my list is the website. The last time I upgraded the engineering drawings from Eagle 4 to Eagle 6 (I'm licenced for 7), it took me months. I think there are serveral issues with the website currently:
The current implementation is a little bit of PHP (to list directories and fetch modify times) and plain vanilla HTML. I made a conscious decision early on to avoid cookies, client side scripting, and other potentially evil stuff. There's also no reason to consider stuff sensitive or secret, so it was all http:. Recently the HTTPS everywhere movement led to me needing to allow HTTPS fetches of the pages because otherwise the browsers won't render them. But now apparently I need to walk all the pages and fix all the URLs to be HTTPS also, or the pictures won't render, etc. I also see that right-clicking download doesn't work either, unless you specifically override the security warning. All fairly easy to fix, but basically annoying make-work.
The use of Eagle for the engineering drawings is an albatross. The drawings should ideally be converted to KiCad, I think. That would allow more folks to enjoy them without feeling pressured to buy stuff. As I mentioned above, there are so many drawings that the relatively easy transistion from one version of Eagle to another took a lot of work. Converting to KiCad is an effort I'd class as a "year long project".
The use of SVN is also potentially an issue -- folks tend to look to github for stuff like that, and are not likely to have subversion installed. This makes it difficult for them to mirror the site or even to download a whole directory. On the other hand, the backing store for the site is *huge*. With my mediocre internet connectivity, I typically have to re-issue the SVN command a half dozen times to finish an entirely fresh check out the entire 78G before timing out. This is also a few times over what sites like github are willing to provide for free.
The hosting isn't much of a problem, though the fellow who helps me with that is older than me, so it's unclear which will survive the other, etc. Mirroring would be great, but I never seem to get an answer when I ping folks about it. My hope is that a few folks have managed to download the whole mess with SVN, and can a way to rehost the content whenever so-much-stuff finally bites it.
Vince