On Sunday, November 3, 2002, at 09:28 PM, Francisco Hernandez wrote:
I found this in my bookmarks today, maybe you can use some of it or contactI'd never seen this doc before. I just wanted to comment on a sentence in the "Editorial" section.
its author and collaborate?
http://enigmastation.com/~joeo/webwork.html
<quote>
Their mentality is why this document needed to be written: their attitude is that "if we build it, the people who want to use it can put in the time to learn how to use it," ...
</quote>
Joseph's assumption that we think people need to invest time in learning WebWork is the exact opposite of true. One of the founding principals of the project is that WebWork is supposed to be easy to use. You shouldn't have to spend a lot of time either reading the source code or reading boring documentation. The project is supposed easy for the beginner to use and flexible enough for complicated applications.
The fact that new users don't understand that this project is about ease of use and simplicity is indicative of where we have gone wrong recently. I think we have gotten off track and need to get back on. For example, this is the reason you sometimes hear me tell people "no" to new features. Anything that clutters up the framework, is something that new users have to learn about. Take a look at the webwork.properties file, and you will see where we could have done better. There are so many configuration options that I wouldn't expect an OpenSymphony developer to understand it all. Cleaning that thing up is what I want for 2.0. Not more damned poweruser features.
Let's try to focus on usability. Low defects, easy to use, and simple to understand. In the future I would like people to get a better impression of us than Joseph got.
-Maurice
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