My big +1 here. This is something we really need to address, see e.g.: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26753263/how-to-setup-infinispan-cache-in-a-two-node-cluster
We need to somehow change new users' sentences from (citation ^): "The documentation found in Internet is so vague and doesn't suit a beginner." to "Wow, ISPN doc is awesome and I only need a bit of help with this little detail to achieve what I want to do." Tom ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jiri Holusa" <[email protected]> > To: "infinispan -Dev List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 11:26:56 AM > Subject: [infinispan-dev] Infinispan 7 documentation > > Hi guys, > > I wanted to share one user experience feedback with you. At university, I had > a lecture about NoSQL datastores and Infinispan was also mentioned. The > lecturer also showed some code examples. To my surprise, he used Infinispan > 6. So after the lecture I asked him why version 6, not 7, and his answer was > quite surprising. > > He told me that he got angry on Infinispan 7 documentation, because many code > snippet examples were from old 6 version and that he was basically unable to > configure it in a reasonable time. So he threw it away and switched back to > Infinispan 6. I justed wanted to make a little discussion about this, > because I think this is quite a big issue. > > I noticed that part of this issue was fixed just recently (18 hours ago, nice > coincidence :)) by [1] (+10000 Gustavo), but there are still some > out-of-date examples. > > But the message I want to say, we should pay attention to this (I know, > boring) stuff, because we're basically discouraging users/community from > using the newest version. Every customer/user will start playing with the > community version and if he's not able to set it up in a few moments, he > will move on to another product. And we don't want that, right? :) > > I also have clap the effort of Tristan with step-by-step tutorial, that's > exactly what user wants and I would be happy to help you in anyway > (verifying, keeping up-to-date, whatever) with it. > > Conclusion: let's pay more attention to documentation, it's the entering > point for every newcomer and we want to make as best first impression as > possible :) > > Thanks, > Jirka > > P.S.: I don't see the changes from [1] in Infinispan User Guide [2], am I > missing something or will it appear there later? > > > > [1] https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan/pull/3011/ > [2] http://infinispan.org/docs/7.0.x/user_guide/user_guide.html > _______________________________________________ > infinispan-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev > _______________________________________________ infinispan-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev
