Re: [Wonder-disc] moving repository to subversion

[Jan W. L. <jan...@se...>]

Hello list,

On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 01:17 AM, David Teran wrote:

> Hi,
>
> i was talking with Anjo and we both think that it would be a 
> tremendous help if we go away from sourceforge to another server where 
> we can use subversion for Project Wonder. We are using subversion for 
> some time now and it is -so- much better than cvs that we switched all 
> our repositories and every time i need to 'refactor' something i know 
> why subversion is great. I noticed no problem with EOModeler after 
> installing a bundle that preserves the .svn files

While this might be a great feature to have, my opinion is it would be 
in the best interest of Project Wonder to stop adding to the confusion 
and start working on a first complete release that gives potential 
users a headstart. As distributed in its current form, it won't even 
compile on MacOSX because of problems with Jikes. I've spent the better 
part of this week trying out several parts of project wonder (using 
javac, what's wrong anyway with javac that you people are using Jikes?) 
and ran in on some of the best coding I've seen in my career as a 
software engineer sofar. I also stumbled on a severe lack of 
documentation and sample applications. Most users already have problems 
with the steep learning curve of WebObjects, let alone the learning 
curve Project Wonder will confront them with.

If you want your project to succeed, make sure it's usable and give 
your potential users a head start by providing documentation and 
working sample projects, or at least supply instructions to get these 
samples working. Without proper documentation you'll confront the 
potential users of Project Wonder with hurdles they might not be able 
to overcome.

To put foot in mouth, I'm willing to invest essential time in 
contributing in this project, only because I'm convinced of the true 
potential.


Regards,

Jan Willem Luiten.