Hi Alex,
I'll ask the publisher again and suggest your idea.
08.11.2009, в 17:41, Alex Kotchnev <akoch...@gmail.com> написал(а):
Igor : just an idea on the translation front. I know that the NetBeans
community already did two "community translated" books from German,
so it
might be interesting if the same model is possible in the Tapestry
community. I think it was mostly a volunteer effort but it got two
NetBeans
RCP books translated in no time. In other words, if there are half a
dozen
to a dozen people in the community who know both German and English
and are
willing to translate a chapter or two, then the publisher only needs
an
editor to verify that the translation is good - much less effort on
their
part, much faster to get the books selling in English speaking
countries,
much faster way to get the books into the community.
On my part, although I can't offer any skills in doing the actual
translation, I can offer some of my time to proof read chapters that
are
already translated. Luckily, code (usually) doesn't need much
translating.
Cheers,
Alex K
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Igor Drobiazko <igor.drobia...@gmail.com
>wrote:
Well, I think you should do what you feel is best for you right
now. If you
need a timeout from coding then write a book. If you feel a book
will take
too much of your time then code again. I'm still hoping my
publisher will
translate my book. So maybe there will be an english book even if you
decide
not to write one. I asked the published several times but didn't
get any
feedback yet. I suppose they are not ready to make a decision right
now.
However, if you need some co-authors I'm ready. Not sure I'm
allowed to but
I can check it. I remember some clause in my contract about writing
competing books.
Don't get me wrong but a 5.2.0.0 release without any single commit of
Howard
would be something awful. :)
It would be a historical event and the final prove that Tapestry is
no
longer a one men show. We have 29 fixed issues in current 5.2
trunk. The
both most popular issues will be fixed in the next days. I'm on the
verge
of
committing fix for http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAP5-138 .
Robert
was going to provide a fix for
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAP5-815 this weekend. JSR 303
support
is almost there.
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Howard <hls...@gmail.com> wrote:
I've been consciously letting Tapestry 5.1 sit and stabilize for a
while ... a time that's stretched a few months longer than I
initially
intended.
This is due to a number of factors: my return to independent
consulting, my desire to write a definitive Tapestry 5 book, and
preparations for many trips and speaking engagements.
All of these factors have worked on each other: I've been
improving and
extending my Tapestry Workshop training materials which can be quite
time consuming. I've also (over the last several months) been on the
road several times, talking about Tapestry or doing Tapestry
training.
I do want to write a book on Tapestry but if I start writing 5.2
code,
I know I'll be sucked right in ... lots of code (that darn Spring
Web
Flow integration for sure this time) and bug fixes.
In addition, I've had an embarassment of riches: two main clients,
one
regular part time, and the other requesting (but not always getting)
all my remaining time. I also have additional clients and training
engagements waiting in the wings. I simply have a lot of draws on my
time.
As usual, working on real-world projects lets me experience the
"rough
edges" of Tapestry and fills me with ideas on how to address those
in
the next release ... often by splitting up Tapestry services into
smaller, more easily overridden chunks and carefully moving internal
services out into the public APIs.
Finally, I've been very pleased by the fact that as I've stepped
back
temporarily from my normal stream of commits, the other Tapestry
developers have stepped in and filled the gap. There's been quite
a bit
of activity especially from Igor that I've barely had a chance to
keep
up on.
So the question is: do I wait and see if time opens up in Q1 to
actually start on a T5 book ... or do I jump into 5.2 coding and
leave
books to others? It's much, much easier to write code than to
write a
book ... a book is a large amount of concentrated effort. It's very
hard to accomplish anything on a book using an hour here or an
evening
there ... whereas Tapestry's code base lends itself to that kind of
effort quite nicely.
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Posted By Howard to Tapestry Central at 11/07/2009 10:11:00 AM
--
Best regards,
Igor Drobiazko
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