Hey David, I'm Josh, the other full-time Melkjug developer, Luke's on vacation at the moment. Thanks for the offer, we'd love to see your Makefile if you have a chance. I created a ticket <http://trac.openplans.org/melkjug/ticket/370>for this issue a few days ago and it's currently slated for our 0.5.1 (next) release, so I was planning on putting some time into this anyway after knocking out a few of the more important things on my plate. Feel free to update the ticket directly with an attachment, and in general to make as much use of our Trac instance <http://trac.openplans.org/melkjug>, mailing list<http://www.openplans.org/projects/melkjug/lists/melkjug-development-list>, OpenPlans project <http://www.openplans.org/projects/melkjug/summary>, and IRC Channel <irc://irc.freenode.net/#melkjug> as you like. Thanks again for the feedback, and look forward to seeing you around!
Josh On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:24 PM, David Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Luke, > > Sorry it came across that way, I only meant it as constructive > criticism. I would say though that one of the best things you can do > to make Melkjug more usable is to reduce its load time (as is well > known in the industry). > > If you like, I could try to contribute a Makefile that will > concatenate your sources, and call minify or Y! Compressor. I'm using > something similar to this for a personal project already. I guess it > might be a bit harder if you share the same source files across > multiple physical pages (my app doen't do this), but I'd be willing to > give it a shot when I get a free minute. > > Again, sorry if what I said sounded harsh. :) > > > David. > > 2009/2/25 Luke Tucker <[email protected]>: > > > > Hey David, > > > > Sorry to hear your experience was so drastically negative! but thanks for > > the honest feedback :) We'll do our best to fix things up in the > javascript > > department as soon as we can. It's a relatively small open source > project, > > so we're going with release early and often even if it's... significantly > > less than perfect :) I hope when we get it in better shape you'll give > us > > another shot. If you have any interest in lending us a hand in tuning > > things up, check out the project website at http://melkjug.openplans.org > > > > Thanks again, > > > > - Luke > > > > On Feb 24, 2009, at 7:29 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > >> == Melkjug Feedback from Anonymous[David W] ([email protected]) == > >> > >> I was really excited by the concept of tunables, up until I noticed the > >> entry page takes over a second to load on my December 2007 MacBook in > >> Europe. > >> > >> On investigating I see 20, yes 20 Javascript source files. No way am I > >> using this. :) > >> > >> Forgetting the effects all those files have on latency (not to mention > >> they're at the start of the HTML rather than the bottom -- where they > don't > >> prevent the rest of the page from rendering), I'm sure the app is nice > and > >> all that, but I use wireless waay too much. Guaranteed 1 time in 4 I try > to > >> login one of those files will stall. > >> > >> Its 100 times worse when using 3G Internet. > >> > >> Perhaps I'm sad for rating apps like this, but I've come to understand > >> it's the difference between a good day, and wanting to throw my computer > out > >> the nearest window. > >> > >> All the best! > >> > >> > >> David. > > > > > > > > -- > It is better to be wrong than to be vague. > — Freeman Dyson
