Book. Web site. Marketing. Strategy. Just to make a statement here: THE TAPESTRY 5 CODE IS MORE THAN GOOD ENOUGH!! The quality of the code and the framework just isn't the bottleneck. I think we all can agree on that?
Who cares about Spring Web Flow or portlet support? Do we really think that such features would generate exponential amounts of traffic to the T5 website? Because that's what we need. Exponential growth in the user base. My fear is that T5 will simply die within a couple of years if we don't get massive growth and popularity. So what can we do to achieve that? Exposing internal services as public sounds like a great idea to me, but it sure won't help much for the exponential growth. I think the best way for Howard to spend his time would be to find more people to delegate work to, and spend some quality time with those people. And after that, focus on marketing and documentation. Hope I didn't offend anyone with this rather brutal post. I want only the best for this excellent framework and its very talented founder :) On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Newham, Cameron <cameron.new...@bl.uk>wrote: > You need to write the book IMO. > > We've seen several attempts to start a book* on here but it hasn't > happened and probably won't. > > Others will contribute to the current code. 5.2 can wait, I'm sure. > > > * an English Tapestry 5 book, that is. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Howard [mailto:hls...@gmail.com] > Sent: 07 November 2009 18:11 > To: users@tapestry.apache.org > Subject: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry > > 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. > > -- > Posted By Howard to Tapestry Central at 11/07/2009 10:11:00 AM > > ************************************************************************** > > Experience the British Library online at http://www.bl.uk/ > > The British Library’s new interactive Annual Report and Accounts 2008/09 : > http://www.bl.uk/knowledge > > Help the British Library conserve the world's knowledge. Adopt a Book. > http://www.bl.uk/adoptabook > > The Library's St Pancras site is WiFi - enabled > > ************************************************************************* > > The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally > privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you are not the > intended recipient, please delete this e-mail and notify the mailto: > postmas...@bl.uk : The contents of this e-mail must not be disclosed or > copied without the sender's consent. > > The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the > author and do not necessarily reflect those of the British Library. The > British Library does not take any responsibility for the views of the > author. > > ************************************************************************* > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > >
