I actually tried to do some Scala work in ESME but without documentation I was lost pretty fast.
D. On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Vassil Dichev <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does anyone have suggestions, how Apache ESME can use this interest to > > increase its community? > > I think the best part is that we don't need to do anything different > than what we have to do anyway :) > > > I have a few ideas: > > > > - A guide to how to use ESME to learn Scala -- (@Vassil - do you have > > ideas?) > > Popularity surge or not, this might be a good idea; of course it has > to be adapted to ESME's concepts. > > > - A few tips to try out on a local ESME installation to learn Scala. > > "Hello World" experience with ESME. > > A very interesting idea would be to use different components from ESME > to create e.g. a Twitter bot; some of the code from ESME actions was > initially reused by a standalone bot which feeds items into ESME. > > > - Better documentation in our existing Scala code (look here for a > better > > example - > > > http://scala-tools.org/mvnsites/liftweb/lift-amqp/scaladocs/net/liftweb/amqp/AMQPDispatcher.scala.html > ), > > so that beginners have an idea what we are doing in our code base. > > > - More PR work to point people to the Apache ESME site. > > Absolutely- but I feel before we need to point hordes of potential > developers to our site, we should have something more presentable :( > maybe not a requirement for a motivated developer if they see promise, > but nevertheless finding out easily how to get started could come a > long way. >
