On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 23:07 +0200, Robo wrote: > May be a little bit of respect and honesty to wicket newcomers, and also > understand why there are their needs and be abowe the matter , would help you > ... Yet another useless atack ... teacher ... >
I am not one of the core developers, but have been a member of the wicket community for a long time. I've seen newcomers come and go. First, I'd like to say that this particular newcomer showed very little respect for the developers. The newcomer did not consider the fact that just perhaps the developers knew a tiny bit about what they where doing and that they standardized on maven and the examples layout for a reason. He either did not take the time to read the documentation on the website, or completely misunderstood it. If he did not take the time, then he seems to think that his time is so much more important than theirs that they should code everything up so that it is possible for him to understand how to set up an application in the way that he expects. It doesn't matter much that others understand what we have just fine. It doesn't fit for him, thus it must be broken. If he tried, but did not understand, then why didn't he ask questions about the parts that he didn't understand? Instead, he blasts a lot of criticism over the fence towards the developers that have done a *great* deal of work on a very fine framework. Apparently, people such as he think that the developers' time and effort is limitless and is there to satisfy his own needs. I submit that rather than attacking wicket and the methods of it's developers out of hand, a few well-placed questions surrounding the things that are really giving him trouble would serve him well. Sadly, we can't dump all the knowledge of wicket into someone's head. Any developer wanting to use any framework must invest time into learning how to use it. Wicket is really, really, easy compared to many other frameworks, and IMHO, worth the time and effort. But some effort is required. All the opinions above are my own; not the wicket community, not the developers of wicket. I really, really wish that users of open source software would show more respect to the developers who put so much time and effort into the products that those users use, however. -- Philip A. Chapman Desktop and Web Application Development: Java, .NET, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL Linux, Windows 2000, Windows XP
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