Hi Ranty,
I'm just curious. What, exactly, is the purpose of this post? If it's just so you can blow off steam then, well, I suppose it's served its purpose. But ranting at us because you don't like the free software we provide you... actually, wait, you aren't complaining about MooTools itself, just how we organize ourselves around it. Let me back up. But ranting about all the things we do BESIDES writing free code for you isn't really all that helpful. We've enumerated at length the many reasons we don't provide a forum on MooTools.net, not the least of which is we don't want to maintain the software - we'd rather spend our time writing code and fixing bugs. As for a plugin repository, it's something we're working on, but we don't have a ton of resources and that work goes as fast as it can given that it's all donated time. You say the documentation is sub-par but not exactly what you mean by that. Are there details that you wish were present that are not? Is it the presentation of that documentation you don't care for? The thing is, MooTools is an open source project. That means that if you don't like it, you can roll up your sleeves and help out. Something missing in the docs? Well, jump into git and add more detail and then send us a pull request to pick up your changes. Or maybe create your own site and start writing tutorials. Don't like these forums? Well, there are alternatives (and here I'm thinking of http://mooforum.net/). But really forum software is forum software. If you don't like the Google Groups interface, use nabble (http://n2.nabble.com/MooTools-Users-f660466.html). But just ranting AT us instead of offering any sort of constructive input isn't likely to get you anything except posts back here blowing you off (which, I hope you'll see, this is not). If your company has written 10,000 lines of MooTools code then you no doubt have some experts there. Why not give something back to this project except complaints? Aaron rantytheranter wrote: > > Mootools developers if you are reading this, thanks for your time on > building a solid framework, but it was a bad idea to remove the forum, I > don't care what your reasons were, and yes I read the entire page > containing your reasons. This part got me "feel free to switch to another > framework that provides their users with an official bulletin-board like > forum software", that was the jaw droppper. Unfortunately my company has > blessed your framework and I am not "free" to switch frameworks, nor is it > feasible to convert over 10,000 lines of code to JQuery. Which we already > had to convert once do to your brilliant changes between 1.1 and 1.2. I > wonder what other version change nightmares you may have in store for our > department. Your documentation is sub-par, you have no plugin repository, > and well I could go on. I know you will say that posts like this are part > of the reason why the forum was shut down in the first place, but I would > have never posted this until I noticed that. > > In closing the organization of this project is a joke, and I stress just > the organization. > ----- The MooTools Tutorial: http://www.mootorial.com www.mootorial.com Clientcide: http://www.clientcide.com www.clientcide.com -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/rant-tp1649808p1649881.html Sent from the MooTools Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
