I hope the MEAP starts soon. I don't have any official dates, but I'm pushing Manning to start it. Let me explain our process in order to give you the feeling of why the MEAP isn't started yet.
1) Joachim Van der Auwera translates the German manuscript into English 2) After Joachim finished the translation of a chapter, I begin with proofreading the translation. This is a chance for me to improve the things, which I don't like in the German book. Often I'm moving content around, update the contents with 5.2 stuff and provide more details which are not available in the German book. 3) Once I'm finished, my contact at Manning starts to read the chapter. Usually there are some improvement suggestions in terms of wording, segues between chapters, etc. 4) Final step in ironing out a chapter is applying the suggestions provided by Manning. As Manning cares very much about the quality, the steps 3) and 4) may be repeated until we have the feeling that a chapter is good enough. This makes the process very slow, but ensures that we will have a great book on Tapestry. Another great news is that I absolutely don't have any constraints regarding the number of pages. This is great, as I can provide more details on topics which has been covered in the German book not at full length. So, were are we now? Currently, almost the half of the book (10 chapters) is translated by Joachim. Chapters 1 - 6 are proofread by me. Chapters 1 - 2 are ready for MEAP. My contact at Manning is currently reading chapters 3 and 4. Once the first four chapters are ironed out, we can start the MEAP. I really hope, the MEAP will start in February. I can't promise anything, but I'll give my best and push Manning. I hope the status of the book is more clear now. On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Alex Kotchnev <akoch...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been hoping that Manning would add this book to the Early Access > program (MEAP) so that I can get my hands on it ASAP. Unfortunately, that > hasn't happened yet. It would be nice if we can get an update from Igor on > where things stand w/ the book. > > Regards, > > Alex K > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Koka Kiknadze <226...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Is there any progress? Or any preliminary release date? > > > > Thanks > > > > Nicholoz > > > -- Best regards, Igor Drobiazko http://tapestry5.de
