[Dithaka-devel] Re: dithaka on sourceforge

[Thomas F. <tfo...@cs...>]

On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 10:09 +0200, Richard Watson wrote:
> I guess my first thought is that the goals of the project could best
> direct where effort goes - documentation/demo site/slinky website.  Who
> are we trying to attract?
> 
> I've always thought the best initial bunch would be the Tapestry herd -
> they'd find it (or not) useful very quickly because they are the best
> positioned to leverage the components and potentially extend their own
> applications using it, and give us feedback (and hopefully improvement)
> on underlying ideas.  Not sure how close the components are to
> that...been a while.
> 
> Just a thought.  You guys?

Good thinking :)

Getting some Tapestry people to use the components would be cool :)

The Coefficient/OpenDgroups people will also be interested. The
OpenDgroups implementation uses Dithaka and Coefficient. There will be a
demo and presentation of this implementation to the DGroup partners
early in June, after which (I hope) we can expect significant
development activity on both Coefficient and Dithaka.

Given these points, and following some discussion with Richard, I
propose that we focus on the following:
 - README and installation guide
 - Architecture + tech overview
 - "Users" guide - a doc that explains how to integrate Dithaka into
your project, focusing on the use of the Tapestry components
 - Resources: a doc explaining the resources stuff (conceptually). 
 - File extraction stuff - an explanation of how it works, etc.
 - other technical topics in Dithaka, as the demand arises.

I think we should develop the rest of "developers guide" in pieces: as
the need arises for something to be explained (via the mailing list, for
instance), this explanation is distilled into a doc.

A cool website is probably lower down the list; for now, I think we
should focus on s site with content useful to our target audience -
namely Tapestry and Open DGroups developers.

> And the name - as Goodwill explained it to me, you can use it to refer
> to "a collaboration", e.g. musicians might collaborate and that might be
> referred to as a dithaka, and also used as "peers".  Ex nay on the
> tonsils, I say!

+1 :)

-- 
Thomas Fogwill <tfo...@cs...>


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