Dear Kevin, I am really surprised about your concerns and also your conclusions. I am a passive reader of the Jetspeed mailing community since 1 year where a lot of "beginner" questions will also be answered (also questions asked maybe 10 times in the same manner) while "professional" and hard-to-fix problems/questions will also be answered in 1-2 days latest.
I cannot comprehend your conclusion not to use Jetspeed because of the inactive (??) mailing community. Jetspeed is one of the highlights in the Jakarta project, gives a lot of opportunities and while it is still declared as beta our website is running on Jetspeed without any complications since 3 months. PS: it is the best platform to understand the portlet technology. Everybody who had to install Websphere Portal server will also enjoy its quick and fast installation. -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: Kevin Baynes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 16. Juni 2003 16:24 An: Jetspeed Users List Betreff: RE: Jetspeed and community portals Scott Weaver wrote : | Jetspeed has an active user and developer community. The user mailing | list is quite amicable and you will never see any rude RTFM or "better | than thou" comments from the community. The developers welcome comments | and criticisms and are more than willing to try and integrate any | changes into the code base that user submit, with due credit given to | that user. I've been trying to get started with Jetspeed and posted with the title 'Error Starting Jetspeed in Resin 2, Tomcat 4 and Jetty 4.' Thus far I have yet to receive a reply. :-( I've been lurking on this list for a while and it seems quite dead. In my inbox now, the messages 'Cannot Log in', 'jsp and unicode support problem', and 'photo album and message posting portlets?' have all been sitting with no reply - just to name a few. From my experience, this is very common on this list : users post and no-one answers. The developer/user community makes a huge difference in the success of a project. I've pretty much come to the conclusion that I don't want to use Jetspeed for this very reason. I like the Apache projects and a lot of good stuff comes out of Jakarta. I don't want to offend anyone, I just want the developers to know that I - for one - am turned off by what I'm seeing here. I'd like to see Jetspeed be a successful member of the Jakarta projects and I don't think that is going to happen when questions from serious users go unanswered. Sincerely, A. Kevin Baynes --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
