My motive in having a compact tutorial is that the user can have anoverview of what things one should need in succession(setting up environment, then running tests etc). I think Derby Getting started guide would also be a good place to add/modify these things.
I think your ideas and feedback are excellent; it is great to have your experiences as it has been a while since any of the existing developers has set their environment up from scratch :) I think that we generally try to keep the external Derby documentation, such as the Getting Started guide, focused on the needs of the *users* of Derby, as opposed to the needs of the *developers* of Derby. Our users are not expected to need to learn how to compile Derby, run the tests, etc. However, I think that your observations and improvements would be great if you could edit them into the Derby developer's wiki pages, starting probably somewhere around here: http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/DerbyDev The wiki pages can be (and should be) edited by any member of the Derby community, so please feel free to create a wiki account for yourself and add your fixes, ideas, checklists, and tutorials to those wiki pages so that future developers can benefit from them! thanks, bryan
