Eelco, the user user manual looks great so far and it's really needed. I'm a pretty good proof-reader so I'll print it out and give you some feedback.
I hope this is a fair statement, but I think it is still quite different from Jonathan's manual, which was kind of like a big cookbook stepping you through the basic examples. Granted, that manual left a lot of questions in my mind which you answer in the new User Manual, like how the different stock Models work, the request Lifecycle and such. Do you think Jonathan's original examples manual still has a niche to fill, or do you think the new user manual should replace it entirely? My impression is that when I wanted to understand the different Link styles, for example, the old User Manual made it very easy to go find that out. The new User Manual doesn't seem to fit that type of newbie question. I wonder if another developer could take on the (relatively simple I hope?) task of updating the API calls in Jonathan's old Examples Manual so that it can still be useful for the 1.0 release? I'm sorry to push on this without being able to offer to help much myself. :-( - Jonathan (Carlson) >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-05-23 10:57:33 AM >>> Hi Jonathan, I have been working on the new user guide at: http://wicket.sourceforge.net/wiki/doku.php?id=newuserguide&DokuWiki=9642a4ac6dc8e7fde461ebb2f488de88. It is far from done, but I think it makes a decent start. Besides the fact that I am very bussy with Wicket (finding/ fixing bugs, working on more examples, etc) and other stuff, and thus don't have much free time left for working on the manual, I also don't enjoy working on it much, and - as English is not my native tongue - I find it quite hard to write good articles. Anyway, I am trying the best I can, and we are also updating the how-to's regularily. But we can use any help for sure! So, here's my call for help again... is there anyone out there with good writing skills wanting to work on the Wicket user guide? Eelco Jonathan Carlson wrote: >I'm very pleased with the work you guys have been doing. :-) > >Is it really wise, though, to release 1.0 without an updated user >manual? I'm mostly beyond the point of needing one now. But when I >started out, Jonathan's user manual is what really got me over the >initial fear of a steep learning curve. There are too many frameworks >out there for me to waste time with one that doesn't give me an easy >leg-up on the learning curve that I can hold in my hands. > >When 1.0 comes out, I think it is very important to capitalize on the >attention it should garner. Without a relatively complete and >professional looking User Manual, any 1.0 momentum could easily be >squandered. > >Hopefully I'm out of touch with how far-along the user manual really is >though. If not, couldn't someone at least take Jonathan's old User >Manual and update it to reflect the new API changes before 1.0 goes out? > I'd love to volunteer, but I'm struggling for free-time as it is, given >that I have 3 young children and a wife. > >Jonathan (someone who wants Wicket to "make-it big-time") > > > > >>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-05-22 9:14:16 AM >>> >>>> >>>> >May 21, 2005 - 1.0 RC3 is out! > >Finally, after a month of some silence, we have produced our last >release candidate before we deploy 1.0. If all goes well, you will see > >the final release within a week or two. The bug list now only contains > >an issue relating to clustering. As such we advise you currently to not > >deploy your application on a cluster, until the issues are resolved, or > >to be very thorough in your clustering tests. > >In this release you won't see major API changes, however the internals > >have improved significantly. The request cycle has now correct >semantics, we have improved the redirect after post pattern, which now > >performs significantly better than before, and allows you to do your >request handling and rendering in one pass, and then redirect to the >rendered page. CompoundModel support has improved and works with more >components than before. 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