I don't quite agree.

The problem with FlexJS is that you have to do things differently than with 
Flex. For Flex the web is full of useful and less useful how-tos on the topic, 
but for FlexJS there is next to nothing to be found.


It would be great to have some Documentation, walking an interested User into 
the details and concepts of FlexJS. Without a "handbook" we have some kick-ass 
software only kick-ass users will understand to use. I doubt that targeting 
only the kick-ass users will bring us the user-numbers we are looking for. It's 
not "features over all". The more we do without documenting, the more 
documentation-debt we produce.


I tried writing documentation for the parts I do, while I'm at it. I hope I was 
doing a somewhat good job of this, and I think it would be great to not only 
code concepts but write down some words about them in the Wiki.


Perhaps we should start a wiki page, containing features we consider important 
for a 1.0.0 and could add a dedicated docs-wish list. Jira sort of doesn't 
cleanly support creating and prioritizing a big-picture.


Chris

________________________________
Von: Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com>
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 8. September 2016 17:16:03
An: dev@flex.apache.org
Betreff: Re: FlexJS - roadmap to 1.0 release

What kind of documentation are you talking about?  Just filling out ASDoc,
or pages of words?

There are so many things that need to be done that having folks who aren't
currently committing code to FlexJS help with filling out ASDoc and
recruiting people who are good at writing to write more verbose
documentation would be a great help.  I don't agree that doc is more
important than functionality until you have enough functionality, and the
lack of a testimonial makes me think we aren't quite there yet.

If someone tried FlexJS and isn't sure what they can do, a more specific
question/comment would help.  We could create a JIRA issue called "FlexJS
Doc Wish list" and folks can comment in there.  We can't guess what folks
need. It would be better for folks to try to do what they want to do and
if it can't do it, they should ask about it.

Thanks,
-Alex

On 9/8/16, 12:18 AM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote:

>+1000
>
>Documentation is the first thing people look for in a framework. This is
>absolutely critical (more than functionality and production apps).
>Unfortunately, I’m really bad at documentation, so I can’t help much with
>this.
>
>AFA productions apps go, my conversion to FlexJS is moving along quite
>nicely. I don’t have an ETA yet, but I’m really hoping it will be usable
>by the end of the year (and hopefully sooner).
>
>On Sep 8, 2016, at 9:27 AM, piotrz <piotrzarzyck...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In my opinion documentation is the second thing which need to be done
>>before
>> 1.0
>

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