Hi all,
things are starting to look much better and I really appreciate to see other people being involved.
I just would like to share some thoughts about writing howtos.
For me, writing howtos is of course providing the user with an easy step-by-step manual but also an opportunity to fix problems and improve the project.
Few examples:
- installation howto: not everyone will will with the CVS repository (in fact it's a minority) and the majority will try to compile the src release (xindice-src.zip). But there's no such release right now... So the first task it to write a task to create the releases (a first try is in the contributor.xml file).
- tomcat howto: how can the location of the database be configured? The war file is unpacked into (currently) xindice-1.1b. Since the end user doesn't care about the version, how can Tomcat automatically reference the webapps as 'Xindice'?
If we are able to ask the right questions, there are enough experience on the ml to find the right answers.
That was my 2 cents of the day
Keep up the good work!
-Vladimir
-- Vladimir R. Bossicard Apache Xindice - http://xml.apache.org/xindice
