It was really great to meet some of the people at the Bay Area Lunch on Wednesday who are involved in Derby!
One of the people that I met there was Kim Haase. Kim and I have been contributing documentation to Derby, and naturally we discussed the Derby Library during the lunch. An area that we think might be good to improve is the organization of information which discusses how to setup and start working with Derby. We discussed the possibility of moving the entire content of the Working With Derby manual into the Getting Started Guide. The Working With Derby content is really good, but might be better if it is placed in context with the installation and getting started information. Additionally, the information in the Getting Started Guide that describes SQL syntax might be better in the Reference Manual, where the SQL statements are actually documented. There currently is no information in the Reference Manual that explains the syntax diagrams. How does the rest of the Derby community feel about us analyzing the current organization of the Getting Started Guide and the Working With Derby information, with the intent to propose a reorganization of the information? Are there other areas in the Derby Library that seem to be organized poorly? -- Laura Stewart
