I think its especially important to a technology that competes,
compliments or purports to usurp incumbents (Ant, Maven).
You need to hook folks on your idea within 5 seconds of glancing at
the front page. To me that means one thing only :- colorized builder-
esque ruby that's faintly reminiscent of an elegant Ant script or a
Maven POM.
Folks going down the install route follow that. Folks making
contributions follows that ( assuming you leave discrete places for
enhancements and are following a ship-it model ).
Regards,
- Paul
On Oct 1, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Daniel Spiewak wrote:
This is a very good point and something that I had forgotten. We
need to
get a "first taste" or similar on the front page, along with a
*very*prominent link to the quick start. Right now, all of the
information is
there, but it's organized in "blaze your own trail" fashion. Still
better
than Maven's docs, but I think we can do even better.
Daniel
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Paul Hammant <[email protected]> wrote:
Here's a question:
How many clicks is it from the home page for Buildr until you can
see an
example of a buildr build script.
A second question:
How many clicks would a newbie do to find the same (they are
straining to
find the obscure corner that build script examples are on)
I'm thinking such a script should be on the home page, and also on
the
getting started page.
Regards,
- Paul
