im.py: a python communications tool

[Jake D]

On Apr 5, 8:52 pm, Demian Brecht <demianbre... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for sharing some of your work with the community. However...
>
> Speaking to the sharing aspect: Why would you post a block of code in an
> email? If you're looking for people to contribute, it would likely be a
> much better idea to post it on github (which was built for collaborative
> work).
>
> As for the code itself, if you /know/ it sucks and are advertising it as
> such, you're not really enticing people to work on it. In its current
> state, it looks like a non-extensible prototype, just poking around to see
> how you can achieve a p2p connectivity, without doing /any/ research
> (supporting modules, etc) or design before just starting to throw something
> together.
>
> I'd venture to say that the chances of actually getting anyone to
> contribute to this in its current state (especially purely over a mailing
> list) would be slim to none. People generally tend to want to see that
> there's actually effort and thought put into something before they put
> /their/ own time into it.

Jeez, harsh.  I __am__ putting this on github, and I __am__ coming
back to this program and working on it now.