On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Gregory Chase <[email protected]> wrote:
> More important than easy to develop is easy to pick up and use.
>
> Improving the new user experience is something that needs attention from
> Geode. How we develop and provide Spark integration needs to take this
> into account.
>
> Once we are able to provide official releases, how can a user know and make
> sure they are getting the correct plug-in version, and have relatively up
> to date support for latest Geode and Spark versions?
>
> That to me is the requirement we should be designing for first in our
> development process.
Huge +1 to the above. In fact, if you look into an open source project
that is frequently used as a gold standard of mind share capturing: Docker
you'll notice that they credit a strategy of "batteries included, but removable"
as one of the cornerstones of their success:
https://clusterhq.com/2014/12/08/docker-extensions/
Docker hype aside, perhaps there's a lesson to be learned.
Thanks,
Roman.
