RSIBreak is Debian Package of the Day

Posted by toma on March 11, 2007; This entry is filed under English.
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RSIBreak has been made Package of the Day. It’s nice to get this kind of publicity. I’ve not been blogging about it for a while and to be honest, have not worked on it for a while.

The main reason for it is that it does what I want it to do. I use it daily. Some days I don’t see it reminding me for a break at all – usually slow days – and sometimes it popups up every 20 minutes – busy days. I try to honor it’s suggestions usually.

It’s on my list to port to KDE4, because I want to keep using it there as well. It is interesting to see that when you give regular attention to an application in the form of blogs, the project becomes active and lively. For RSIBreak I see that there are usually no visitors on the irc channel, no patches, etc. While when it was in heavy development there were people in the channel and patches. But I guess there are written multiple e-books about ‘managing an open source community’.

Anyhow, it’s great to be Package of the Day!

5 Comments

  1. Tom Albers March 11th, 2007 at 18:59

    Curious if the rsibreak.org site can handle that…

  2. Francis Giannaros March 11th, 2007 at 18:20

    Even more publicity now that debaday made it to Slashdot ;-)

  3. Bastian March 11th, 2007 at 17:00

    I’m using it since half a year (?!?). It did really help me while writing my diploma thesis.

  4. Tom Albers March 11th, 2007 at 13:52

    Current RSIBreak relies on X11 to report the idle time of the user. I’ve not seen the Windows call for that. It’s similar code as ‘KTimeTracker’ uses, so I’ll check what they do when I start porting.

  5. Matthais Pospiech March 11th, 2007 at 13:16

    We are looking for a RSI Break program that runs on windows. Will the move to kde4 also bring rsibreak to windows ?
    There are already some programs, but these cost quite a lot or are not as usuable as your application.

    Matthias