Hi, On Apr 28, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Jonathan Stott wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:42:06 -0500 > Ian Eyberg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> as the maintainer of a larger merb stack in production use >> I fully agree with this statement... My team is working on 2 new web apps using Merb and plan to continue using it after that. I came from _why's Camping. Studied severall frameworks and moved into Merb. I don't see frameworks like t-shirts, but understand Merb won't fit in every project, obviously. >> >> now on to reality ... this is open source software so we >> are all in it together -- use what you want to use and >> contribute what you can contribute -- I know a lot of people >> are probably in my situation -- we use the software but >> we don't necessarily have the time to be submitting patches >> every day to maintain it -- having to manage all the other >> components and working on other software eats my time >> hardcore -- so people in my situation can do the next best >> thing -- documentation, howtos, etc.. >> >> I have personally not been so helpful in this regard and have >> done a lot of bitching on this front which is not helpful >> so in an effort to reconcile this, I'll try to write >> some more howtos and fill in any necessary documentation >> that I had trouble figuring out -- I suggest others that >> are in my shoes to do the same >> >> - Ian >> > > That would be greatly appreciated, both by Pavel and myself, and I'm sure by > the community in general. I don't see Rails3 as the future of merb, because > I don't see much value in what would be Rails3, but with an 'odd' syntax. > This feeling is, I think, shared by Pavel. Agree. > > That having been said, the last thing we want to do is make things more > difficult and inconvenient for users wanting to make the transition than it > has to be. Whether aiding the transition is writing docs, or writing a rails > plugin which makes rails behave like merb, it's something I'd like to offer > help and advice to the authors for, but don't have the time to work on > myself. There are things I want to work on for merb itself, as well as all > the other things which take up time. > :merb => ["Good Principles", "Good code", "Stability", "Fun"] > Regards > Jon > pedro mg http://blog.tquadrado.com -- 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.
