So how can we get paid to work MINA full time ? :)
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mark, > > thanks for the comments ! > > More inline > > Mark Webb wrote: >> >> I agree with everything that you all have said here. The one thing I >> would add is about the documentation/tutorials. I look around at some >> other projects and sometimes the documentation is better, sometimes >> its worse. Focusing on the better projects, the documentation is >> spot-on professional. I have been working with ActiveMQ lately and >> the whole idea of the Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) is >> fantastic. > > AFAIK, ctiveMQ has been heavily backed by IONA, who paid some peeps to work > on it, as they are offering Fuse, an enterprise version of ActiveMQ. THis > may explain the quality of ActiveMQ site. >> >> It shows use cases and associated documentation. I think >> this is what we need. If you want an SMTP server do this, if you want >> an FTP server do that. The list goes on and on. >> > > Agreed. >> >> I think part of the problem with documentation is that the learning >> curve on the MINA internals is steep. I have been on the project for >> a couple years and only in the last 4-6 months can I say that I really >> understand the entire system. This makes it tough for people to dive >> in an help. >> > > That's so true ! And the overly complexity of the code, when you think that > it's a small code base (45 KSlocs, out of which the core is 33KSlocs) is > killing us, specially when you have sparce doc/javadoc. > > -- > -- > cordialement, regards, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.iktek.com > directory.apache.org > > >
