On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Lester Chua <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
>
>>> 1) Product Roadmap (Release plans, upcoming features etc)
>>> This is important to us because it will at least indicate the intentions
>>> of
>>> Wicket Team. As any technology that is adopted enterprise-wide needs to
>>> be
>>> long-lived and well supported in addition to it's features and
>>> technology,
>>> some visibility about the product lifecycle is required.
>>>
>>
>> http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/wicket-15-wish-list.html
>> http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/wicket-14-wish-list.html
>>
>
> I did see the wishlist but was wishing for something more like a roadmap
> with projected release timelines, I can see why that it will probably not be
> accurate for an open sourced project but an indication of a rough ETA and
> included features will be good.
>
> By the way, is the wishlist official? As in are the features present in the
> wishlist official? Or is the wishlist used as an idea incubator/exchange?

its an idea incubator

>> 2) Recent Adoption Statistics (No of downloads, usage projections)
>> We need this to gauge the interest in the project. Has it peaked? What
>> is the pattern like?
>>
>> ++ Nice idea
>>
>>
>>>
>>> a) Although there is examples and documentation available on Wicket main
>>> site and Wicket stuff, I find that the organization of the information is
>>> probably not friendly enough for easy viewing. E.g. the examples site
>>> does
>>> not contain source and viewable example together in an easy to read page.
>>> This can be improved on significantly.
>>>
>>
>> "you and your team are welcome to contribute, great ideas btw"
>>
>>
>
> Planning to once I get up to speed.
>>>
>>> Being such an easy to use component framework, I am really puzzled about
>>> why the
>>> plugin development seems so bare
>>>
>>
>> One reason is that it's so easy to make plugins it feels unnecessary
>> to publish them.
>>
>>
>
> Actually I kinda disagree. Take Delphi which was awesome for it's component
> architecture and IDE. Writing components and packaging them was very easy
> but it had a HUGE thriving component library market place where you can
> literally purchase thousands of packages and libraries.

desktops apps are different, you can build any kind of component you
want. wicket works with server-side html and there is a limited set of
things you can build. if you need a slider then the chances are we
wont provide it, we dont need to, just use wicket to output a hidden
field and make a slider out of it using jquery or some other frontend
library. in about two minutes you can wrap that into a jqueryslider
component, would you take the time to share something that took two
minutes to build? some people do, there are a couple of projects out
there that provide integrations between wicket and jquery, but most
people dont end up sharing.

>>> c) The mailing list is wonderful and I have had some questions very
>>> quickly
>>> answered, which points to an active and supportive community for which
>>> I'm
>>> grateful. If there is a way to harness this and make the information more
>>> easily accessible, it'll be awesome.
>>>
>>
>> Google reaches most of the discussion via nable/osdir.
>>
>>
>
> Yea, that is how I got most of the solutions to my little set of problems.
> =) Just wishing that it can be better.

hrm, you posted about six messages on our lists, and most times you
got an answer within a couple of hours. that is better then most
commercial support out there. and yet you are still complaining? :)

-igor

>>
>> My 2cents worth ;)
>>
>>
>> **
>> Martin
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