On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Marcel Offermans <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Bram, > > On Sep 28, 2011, at 2:20 PM, Bram de Kruijff wrote: > >> we received some of feedback from new/external developers indicating >> that it is non trivial to get started. There is obviously a lot we can >> do, but one popular request is a quickstart/demo distribution allowing >> people to quickly dl, install, run to get an idea of what amdatu can >> do. This is not unlike what we released before, obviously it only has >> one example deployment configuration (we should make that clear) and >> eventually we would probably remove it again once we have provisioning >> is properly up-and-running. We could probably implement this >> quick-and-dirty just like the amdatu-release-ams module. Futhermore, >> I'd suggest making it as fat as possible thus including opensocial, >> cassandra, auth and semantic. > > Agreed, we need this and implementing it that way makes sense to me. One > question I do have is: if you launch this demo, what is there to see? Do we > have enough "demo" gadgets to show a dashboard with something sensible on it > that shows, for example, cassandra, auth and semantic? Anyway, we can start > with creating such a package and maybe add a gadget or two later.
Yup, let's start with the generic stuff that we have and be careful not to build tons of demo ware :) >> amdatu-release-demo? >> amdatu-release-quickstart? > > I prefer demo. Quickstart to me implies that this is actually a setup that > you should use to "quickly start developing your own stuff" where I have the > feeling that the focus here lies more on demo'ing a working system so > developers get an idea of how such a system is setup. > > If you want to help developers get started quickly, we probably need a > different approach: maven archetypes to generate new projects, some form of > incidating what you want, etc.. Here ACE could really help and maybe also the > SeamForge stuff that Paul has been involved in. Agreed. Scope is demo. Created http://jira.amdatu.org/jira/browse/AMDATU-427 grz Bram > Greetings, Marcel > > > _______________________________________________ > Amdatu-developers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.amdatu.org/mailman/listinfo/amdatu-developers > _______________________________________________ Amdatu-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.amdatu.org/mailman/listinfo/amdatu-developers
