Hi, I'm new to Sling and this list although I've known about Sling for some time now (from Jukka and David at Day), but only yesterday I decided to try using it.
And I must say it has been a mixed experience. It's a pity that the latest binary download is already quite dated but building it yourself is indeed not too difficult. But for me that wasn't the main problem. I just wanted to play around with Sling and getting it up and running is indeed very easy using the Getting Started tutorial. Except it seems that's all it is good for: getting up and running, after that there is a big gaping hole on how to proceed. There's lots of really technical information and a small tutorial for a toy blog that's quite useful, but I'm missing lots of information about the basic ideas behind Sling, best practices and just how to continue. One of the first things I wanted to for example was to change the administrator password because I deployed the war on a public server. After some searches I found some information about a REST interface that could be used for the purpose with some curl commands (and only an hour ago I found that there was a FAQ entry). This is hardly easy, is it? There is an extensive administration console, but it lacks something that seems so essential? And it should at least be mentioned in the Getting Started document because you don't want people to deploy unsecured applications. The next thing would be to start editing content, which logically (to me at least) should explain how to change the default landing page. Then a section to start setting up a website would be useful. I wonder if there are any plans to provide that kind of information? I understand Sling is used extensively within Day for its projects but I have this nagging feeling that it was "thrown online" just to make it accessible but without much thought about making it easy for "outsiders" to use. Ok, I'll shut up now because this has turned much more into a rant than I wanted to :) Any tips to get up end running would be greatly appreciated! Cheers, -Tako PS: So far I STILL haven't been able to change the password. The curl command returns a 200 saying it completed successfully but it still allows me to log in with the old password. And the part in the FAQ about the /system/console/configMgr just doesn't make any sense to me. Help! :)
