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dcressey
Copper Contributor
Jul 17, 2023

Evaluating whether to submit code

I'm trying to figure out whether some code I wrote in Powershell is worth sharing with the community of Powershell coders.  It's a very simple csv template engine with no frills.  It combines a simple template with data from a csv file to produce a series of expansions.

 

The process part of the code is only 3 lines long.  It seems too simple to be worth sharing.  But the technique is worth learning for anyone who would like to add a simple, no frills template engine to their own work.  

 

I have built a rudimentary repository for this project in github.  It's available in github.com/dcressey/expand-csv and it should be visible to everyone.  Now what, if anything,  should I do to share this code with the powershell community, and to find out if some visitors like it?  I don't want to distract people who are busy,  but I do want to share my work with people who would benefit.

  • AndySvints's avatar
    AndySvints
    Steel Contributor

    Hello dcressey,

    I think you should share it. It doesn't matter if the script/module/cmdlet is simple or extremely complex. When you was creating it you were solving some specific problem, you had a vivid use case in mind. 

    There is very high chance that other people will also face the same problem/use case and will benefit from your code.

     

    Hope that helps.

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