I'm all for it. Anyone wants to volunteer a good-looking, newbie-friendly, illustrative buildfile to put on the front page? Or suggestions for specific snippets to showcase?
alex On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Paul Hammant <[email protected]> wrote: > I think its especially important to a technology that competes, compliments > or purports to usurp incumbents (Ant, Maven). > > You need to hook folks on your idea within 5 seconds of glancing at the > front page. To me that means one thing only :- colorized builder-esque ruby > that's faintly reminiscent of an elegant Ant script or a Maven POM. > > Folks going down the install route follow that. Folks making contributions > follows that ( assuming you leave discrete places for enhancements and are > following a ship-it model ). > > Regards, > > - Paul > > > On Oct 1, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Daniel Spiewak wrote: > > This is a very good point and something that I had forgotten. We need to >> get a "first taste" or similar on the front page, along with a >> *very*prominent link to the quick start. Right now, all of the >> information is >> there, but it's organized in "blaze your own trail" fashion. Still better >> than Maven's docs, but I think we can do even better. >> >> Daniel >> >> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Paul Hammant <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Here's a question: >>> >>> How many clicks is it from the home page for Buildr until you can see an >>> example of a buildr build script. >>> >>> A second question: >>> >>> How many clicks would a newbie do to find the same (they are straining to >>> find the obscure corner that build script examples are on) >>> >>> I'm thinking such a script should be on the home page, and also on the >>> getting started page. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> - Paul >>> >>> >>> >
