If we can agree on starter, I guess we should change the artifact id from o.a.s.launchpad to o.a.s.starter but leave the version. so basically the "first" release of starter would be 10
I would then call my little startup bundle starter.startup :) Regards Carsten Carsten Ziegeler wrote > I think we can improve the user experience with our launchpad. > Let's start with the simpler issue: > > Right now if you start the app and try "too soon" to open a page in your > browser you might get a nasty message like some service is missing etc. > That's not very helpful. > > I've written a simple bundle at [1] which displays the message "Apache > Sling is starting up...". We could even enhance it with a little > javascript to reload itself. I know we have the startup filter, but > that's more a general purpose thing while this module is exactly there > to improve the user experience. We could add whatever we need to improve > that. I think we should release it and add it to launchpad to make this > problem go away. > > Now the more interesting part is ... naming :) > > While the downloads page states "Sling Application" we always refer to > it as "launchpad". Even the downloaded artifact has "launchpad" in it. > Now "launchpad" has no meaning to someone new to Sling and further more > its a technical term describing how we launch Sling. So I think we > should not use this for our Sling downloads. > > "Sling Application" is far better but might not be the best description > either. I thought about "Sling Demo Application" but that's not quiet > right either. It's definitely not a distribution as we don't intend that > people use this in production. > > So I think we should come up with a good (short) name for this thing and > then use it throughout our documentation and in the artifact id. And > forget about using the term launchpad. (As soon as we move to the new > feature model we don't use launchpad technology anymore anyway). > > We should also improve our docs on building a real application with > Sling. But that's a different topic and I plan to work on this in > November to improve the docs around that. > > WDYT? > > Regards > Carsten > > [1] > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sling/whiteboard/cziegeler/demo.startup/ > -- Carsten Ziegeler Adobe Research Switzerland cziege...@apache.org
