While opens source is indeed a collaborative effort of a community to be successful there needs to be a meeting of minds at least half way. I can attest to the significant undertaking trying to work with jetspeed. I have spent many months and hours tracing out the pieces of jetspeed to gain an understanding good enough to do something useful with the framework. Unfortunately, we are still not where i feel we should be and documentation would have made this a much more succesful effort. Additional specific documentation would have allowed us to focus our work and contribute to the community rather than simply trying to understand enough to do something reasonable. We have a team of very talented individuals and each has been frustrated. We are accustom to contributing to open source efforts but this has been almost impossible. We continue however to do our best and continue to move forward as we believe the jetspeed framework is the correct path for portals. To gain acceptance and build a community requires communicating what one has done or accomplished in a way others can understand and build upon.
Thank you, Sandra ================================================================== Sandra Bittner Sr. Network & Systems Engineer Argonne National Laboratory Mathematics & Computer Science Division Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Weaver, Scott wrote: > Open source is the collaborative effort of a community of developers. It is > not an "us and them" scenario. If you feel there is a deficiency with a > piece of a project (including documentation), step up and fix it. > > I suggest to anyone wanting to contribute documentation subscribe to > Jetspeed-dev. There you can start the ball rolling on generating > documentation. > > My $0.02, > Scott > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Deep Narain Singh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 3:09 PM > > To: 'Jetspeed Users List' > > Subject: RE: why do not the authors of Jetspeed write the detail document > > about Jetspeed? > > > > I fully agree with Gautam. It will really reduces most of our time in real > > time development. > > I think this product/forum authors should let us know if they are in > > process of making documents in more detail way. > > Regards > > Deep > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Gautam Aggarwal [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 4:36 PM > > To: Jetspeed Users List > > Subject: Re: why do not the authors of Jetspeed write the detail > > document about Jetspeed? > > > > Probably, some of us users could take the joint responsibility > > of writing the documentation. I would really like people to > > respond to this and then we can work out something. This would > > also reduce the number of queries coming in on the Jetspeed > > Users' Forum. > > > > Gautam > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > > --- touchmyheart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why?so lack of documents:) > > > > > > does it take much time?the author have no time? should we pay > > > the money for > > > this? > > > > > > OpenSource software!too cheap to get,but too hard to learn. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:jetspeed-user- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:jetspeed-user- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:jetspeed-user- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:jetspeed-user- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
