yes the number time distance between releases has increased, mostly because the new features we are adding are more complex (or would have done it before).
I do not know about the number of users. I definitively think we need more people to blog about web2py. massimo On Saturday, 7 September 2013 05:07:53 UTC-5, LightDot wrote: > > I'm always sorry to see a good open source project with little or no > documentation and a myriad of them are in this sad state. Luckily, web2py > doesn't have this problem. > > The existence of the documentation is this fairly complete form is one of > the reasons I chose web2py over other python frameworks. I don't think > having 40 pages more or less would make me consider web2py faster or > slower. But a lack of a chapter in the book might have made me choose > another framework. > > I agree that new users need simple examples, but not at the expense of an > in depth manual. If there is a consensus that web2py book can be > intimidating for a complete begginer, perhaps someone can write a short "My > first web2py project" in a book form, or something similar? I personally > think this can be better served with blog articles and publishing of slices. > > Perhaps the growh of web2py userbase has slowed a bit..? I'm not sure that > it did though. I don't have any insight into statistics to think one way or > another and I don't trust my perception with this. > > What did slow down is the pace of web2py releases, hasn't it? The period > between releases is longer than it used to be. > > > On Saturday, September 7, 2013 9:54:45 AM UTC+2, webpypy wrote: >> >> >> As Massimo said, " the main advantage/objective of web2py framework is to >> be the easiest and fastest to develop web applications". >> >> I think the rate of growing popularity/interest was high for versions < >> 2.0 , compared with versions >= 2.0 . >> Maybe because of the big size of manual for versions >2.0 , The big >> manual means it is not expected to be the easiest and fastest anymore. >> >> I suggest explaining the features through well documented >> examples/appliances, keeping the manual small... >> >> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
