I think that Inge Solvoli is right, but rather than writing a book
first i think that the Tapestry site need to be redone (what happened
to the redesign?), it's the first place that people new to Tapestry
will look at and i think that today's design and layout give people
the impressions: complex, difficult to understand how to create and
use zones for example, needs organization: components -> Tapestry
version x, how to for specific versions etc. People convinced that
it's a good framework will buy the book but if not they will not spend
money and time on a Tapestry 5.1 book. What if rather than writing a
book and selling it, write and redesign the site using the material
that was to go for the book? It's the Main Store for Tapestry. If the
site's documentation is good enough it will be echoed on the net:
"Want to learn Tapestry, go to the tapestry site, the documentation is
awesome!".
Just my thoughts!
On Nov 9, 2009, at 9:35 PM, Inge Solvoll wrote:
From: Inge Solvoll <inge.tapes...@gmail.com>
Date: November 9, 2009 5:34:33 PM GMT+09:00
To: Tapestry users <users@tapestry.apache.org>
Subject: Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry
Book. Web site. Marketing. Strategy.
Just to make a statement here: THE TAPESTRY 5 CODE IS MORE THAN GOOD
ENOUGH!! The quality of the code and the framework just isn't the
bottleneck. I think we all can agree on that?
Who cares about Spring Web Flow or portlet support? Do we really
think that
such features would generate exponential amounts of traffic to the T5
website? Because that's what we need. Exponential growth in the user
base.
My fear is that T5 will simply die within a couple of years if we
don't get
massive growth and popularity. So what can we do to achieve that?
Exposing
internal services as public sounds like a great idea to me, but it
sure
won't help much for the exponential growth.
I think the best way for Howard to spend his time would be to find
more
people to delegate work to, and spend some quality time with those
people.
And after that, focus on marketing and documentation.
Hope I didn't offend anyone with this rather brutal post. I want
only the
best for this excellent framework and its very talented founder :)
