Aviator wrote:
It would be nice to use MINA in a real production application but we are hesitant to do so -- as it would mean that some of our development team would have to start looking through the MINA source to understand deeper what it is capable of -- as well as how to solve certain problems. This would require substantial resources which would not fit our development plans.
At this point, you should also consider the price *not* to use mina,
considering that you could also post questions to the mailing list,
eventually get answers, and keep progressing like that.
It is somewhat unreasonable to expect users of a component to study it's
implementation in order to learn how to use it effectively.
We don't expect anything from users. But if one user feel like the
documentation is not good enough, we are warmly welcome this user to
participate to the common effort. This is the path to a better
documentation ... OSS is not all about writing code :)
You have a great concept/implementation here -- if a little more effort is
placed on expanding the documentation/tutorials along within the development
cycle -- you will most definitely have something which will find it's home into
a lot more real world production applications.
The thing is that many of us are not native english speakers, and we
find it *painfull* to write documentation in english... We simply do our
best.
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cordialement, regards,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com
directory.apache.org
