As a person who makes these sorts of tech decisions I far prefer a rough measure of quality over fictional dates. Sure, goals are good -- but test suites around a migration plan is going to be build my confidence more than business truisms about community and make believe timelines.
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Samo Korosec <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just a sidenote: some people don't have the time to read the merb and > Rails sourcecode 3-4 times over and there are certainly bosses who > would not tolerate something like that at all. Some may be lucky to > have an environment like that, but a lot of people don't. It's > understandable that they want to save as much time as possible, > especially if the learning has to be done partly in their spare time. > > I don't find it strange that people who want to use and propagate merb/ > Rails are also cautious to not have it leave a bad impression in their > organization. Starting with something and having to re-learn it afresh > in 6 months is not something people look forward to and less something > that would impress a manager who's commiting to merb starting now. > > I'd suggest the merb/Rails core team picks a rough date by which they > will announce their merging plans and the suggested roadmaps and > timeline that the users can use with their planning and refer to that > whenever questions arise. > > Samo > > On 25 Dez., 18:20, Michael Klishin <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On 25.12.2008, at 9:54, MyMerb wrote: >> >> > What should i do now... Should start learning Rails books from scratch >> > or stick to my Merb collection/Tutorials and spend more time to master >> > it...? >> >> Same old song from same singer, MyMerb. You should *learn* and not >> worry about stuff that does not matter. Rails 3 is almost half a year >> away, maybe you will be working with something completely different by >> then. >> >> In 6 months you can read the whole Rails and Merb sources 3-4 times >> each, collect a bunch of questions and ask them a couple of times. Do >> so and you will be a way better hacker than vast majority of people in >> the industry. >> >> MK > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "merb" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
