Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-05-02 Thread Carlos Santana
cs.google.com/document/d/1uJ5qXqQxK2oh1eZPgMdYuhK2rQTB7QMHXUHbkcomWgk/edit?usp=sharing > > > > > > > > From: Ray Camden > > Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 11:28 AM > > To: dev@cordova.apache.org > > Subject: RE: Some p

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-30 Thread Michal Mocny
invited folks only. > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uJ5qXqQxK2oh1eZPgMdYuhK2rQTB7QMHXUHbkcomWgk/edit?usp=sharing > > > > From: Ray Camden > Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 11:28 AM > To: dev@cordova.apache.org > Subject:

RE: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-30 Thread Ray Camden
sp=sharing From: Ray Camden Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 11:28 AM To: dev@cordova.apache.org Subject: RE: Some pain points from our users :'( On it. From: Steven Gill Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 11:12 AM To: dev@cordova.apa

RE: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-30 Thread Ray Camden
On it. From: Steven Gill Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 11:12 AM To: dev@cordova.apache.org Subject: RE: Some pain points from our users :'( I would suggest creating a Google doc and sharing it here. On Apr 30, 2014 8:59 AM, "Ray Camden"

RE: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-30 Thread Steven Gill
esday, April 30, 2014 10:41 AM > To: dev@cordova.apache.org > Subject: Re: Some pain points from our users :'( > > How about here? https://wiki.apache.org/cordova/signposts-draft . I'd > hope this works, as long as the contributions are considered "trivial" by

RE: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-30 Thread Ray Camden
Crap, I spoke too soon. it is a "Immutable Page" and I can't edit it. From: Marcel Kinard Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 10:41 AM To: dev@cordova.apache.org Subject: Re: Some pain points from our users :'( How about here? https://wik

RE: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-30 Thread Ray Camden
day, April 30, 2014 10:41 AM To: dev@cordova.apache.org Subject: Re: Some pain points from our users :'( How about here? https://wiki.apache.org/cordova/signposts-draft . I'd hope this works, as long as the contributions are considered "trivial" by Apache standards. Othe

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-30 Thread Marcel Kinard
How about here? https://wiki.apache.org/cordova/signposts-draft . I'd hope this works, as long as the contributions are considered "trivial" by Apache standards. Otherwise pull requests to cordova-doc.git would be the [slower and more proper] way to go. On Apr 30, 2014, at 11:29 AM, Ray Camden

RE: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-30 Thread Ray Camden
: Some pain points from our users :'( How about using a short-term wiki page to create/grow the draft? Then it could migrate into cordova-docs.git. Getting to the end of the Cordova docs with a working helloWorld, and then having signposts for the next places to go would be a significant ga

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-30 Thread Marcel Kinard
How about using a short-term wiki page to create/grow the draft? Then it could migrate into cordova-docs.git. Getting to the end of the Cordova docs with a working helloWorld, and then having signposts for the next places to go would be a significant gain in the perceived usability of Cordova.

RE: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-30 Thread Ray Camden
when happy? From: Joe Bowser Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 3:12 PM To: dev Subject: Re: Some pain points from our users :'( +1 to this post, who wants to take this on? On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Joerg Holz wrote: > I’m developing B2B-App

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-29 Thread Michal Mocny
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Joe Bowser wrote: > +1 to this post, who wants to take this on? > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Joerg Holz wrote: > > I’m developing B2B-Apps (iOS and Android), using cordova. > > > > First of all, thank you for your great job. From release to release > thi

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-29 Thread Mike Billau
+1 for Joerg's comments. There has been a long outstanding bug to create a "Next Steps" guide: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-677 I know I personally do not "eat my own dogfood" enough, and I'm sure the same can be said about a lot of us on this list. It can be pretty difficult to even r

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-29 Thread Joe Bowser
+1 to this post, who wants to take this on? On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Joerg Holz wrote: > I’m developing B2B-Apps (iOS and Android), using cordova. > > First of all, thank you for your great job. From release to release things > are going easier and tidier. > > It is relatively easy for

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-29 Thread Joerg Holz
I’m developing B2B-Apps (iOS and Android), using cordova. First of all, thank you for your great job. From release to release things are going easier and tidier. It is relatively easy for a beginner to start with cordova, but in a bigger project there are a lot of small jobs and decisions, whic

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-29 Thread Ian Clelland
Sorry, I'm a little late to the party here... On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Marcel Kinard wrote: > How about this: > > 1) No API changes within a minor version bump. We try (maybe we could do better at this) to follow the guidelines at http://www.semver.org for all of the cordova subprojec

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-29 Thread Josh Soref
Jim Jagielski wrote: > But code that is "constantly" changing also means people > cannot standardize on it and they look for something more > "stable"... The trick is to find that happy medium. This is nonsense. [Yes, I'm feeding a troll. This may be the last time, I might have to investigate kill

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-29 Thread Joe Bowser
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 4:55 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > On Apr 28, 2014, at 2:44 PM, Brian LeRoux wrote: > >> I feel the comments there are not really constructive or fair. Cordova >> changes too much? Sorry, static code means bitrot aka abandonware. > > True. But code that is "constantly" chan

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-29 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Apr 28, 2014, at 2:44 PM, Brian LeRoux wrote: > I feel the comments there are not really constructive or fair. Cordova > changes too much? Sorry, static code means bitrot aka abandonware. True. But code that is "constantly" changing also means people cannot standardize on it and they look fo

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-28 Thread Joe Bowser
Oh yeah, this too: https://github.com/infil00p/cordova-android/commit/9911202d5b2a5f07ba2050176f72c3642a34a8c6 On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Joe Bowser wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Freak Show wrote: >> >> >> I guess maybe you're new. > > https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap/comm

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-28 Thread Terence M. Bandoian
For what it's worth, the biggest problem I've had in upgrading is with 'phonegap plugin add '. The native code gets copied but cordova_plugins.js doesn't get updated and the plugin JS isn't wrapped in a call to cordova.define. In a couple of Stack Overflow posts, running 'phonegap build ' aft

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-28 Thread Joe Bowser
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Freak Show wrote: > > > I guess maybe you're new. https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap/commit/1beb1b5f6ac7470eb516768ef52ceda8df6278e1

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-28 Thread Freak Show
On Apr 28, 2014, at 1:54 PM, Joe Bowser wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Freak Show wrote: >> >> On Apr 28, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Joe Bowser wrote: >> >>> This wasn't necessary and I was against it. >> >> Cool - now there are two of us. > > Strange, I don't remember hearing from you b

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-28 Thread Josh Soref
Marcel Kinard wrote: >How about this: >1) No API changes within a minor version bump. For example, we're looking >at some "consistency improvements" to the globalization plugin that would >change the return values. That should trigger a major version bump, even >if the signatures/parms don't change

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-28 Thread Brian LeRoux
Cordova has a CLI. The fact that PhoneGap has one and is different is irrelevant to this list. This is the Cordova mailing list. Why is it different? We donated the PhoneGap source to Apache and it needs to be different for a variety of reasons I'd be happy to share on a personal thread or over a b

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-28 Thread Brian LeRoux
Listening to our developer community is important but it should come with the balance that we do make decisions for a good reason, and as Joe mentoined, this is open source so anyone is free to contribute. The spectrum of contribution includes complaint though we tend to prefer those in the form of

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-28 Thread Joe Bowser
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Freak Show wrote: > > On Apr 28, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Joe Bowser wrote: > >> This wasn't necessary and I was against it. > > Cool - now there are two of us. Strange, I don't remember hearing from you before today? Which commits are you responsible for?

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-28 Thread Freak Show
On Apr 28, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Joe Bowser wrote: > This wasn't necessary and I was against it. Cool - now there are two of us. > These reasons were legal, and it was done to keep PhoneGap open > source. If we didn't do this, we wouldn't be having this > conversation. And this explains where t

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-28 Thread Joe Bowser
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Freak Show wrote: > > Because 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, etcall came with some fatal problem > relative to 1.2. Some plugin or other was broken. None of those versions > offered new capabilities - but often came with new bugs. That's my > perspective o

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-28 Thread Marcel Kinard
How about this: 1) No API changes within a minor version bump. For example, we're looking at some "consistency improvements" to the globalization plugin that would change the return values. That should trigger a major version bump, even if the signatures/parms don't change. As a consumer of Cor

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-28 Thread Freak Show
I think they are fair, or at least were. I have an app running on 1.2. Its staying there. Why? Because 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, etcall came with some fatal problem relative to 1.2. Some plugin or other was broken. None of those versions offered new capabilities - but often came with

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-28 Thread Michal Mocny
s/mailing list/distribution list/ On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Michal Mocny wrote: > I think this particular users' frustration is not addressable (and his > feedback in places is just annoying: "you work for X and I demand that you > should have the money to do everything for me"). > He h

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-28 Thread Michal Mocny
I think this particular users' frustration is not addressable (and his feedback in places is just annoying: "you work for X and I demand that you should have the money to do everything for me"). He hasn't maintained his project for 2 years, hasn't read our docs, hasn't written tests to guard again

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-28 Thread Brian LeRoux
We need to clone Tommy for the various channels and convince Mike Sierra to come back and continue docs. Good problems to have at least. On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Shazron wrote: > We come with a (framework) developer's perspective, thus an echo chamber. > The comments may or may not be

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-28 Thread Shazron
We come with a (framework) developer's perspective, thus an echo chamber. The comments may or may not be fair but the users do encounter pain, and I think it does help in identifying issues we missed (reading from the list overall). Canary in the coal mine, etc. Filing issues etc ideal, but some,

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-28 Thread Joe Bowser
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Brian LeRoux wrote: > I feel the comments there are not really constructive or fair. Cordova > changes too much? Sorry, static code means bitrot aka abandonware. > > We work on Cordova because we are improving it for the many thousands of > our users whom apprecia

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-28 Thread Josh Soref
Shazron wrote: >See: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/phonegap/II0qo-dSFWs/Fj8jkemGSbUJ While I haven't written it, I've contemplated the metadata required for an update check that could tell you when a given api breaks. > because the API for device.platform changed and returned "ios" instead >of

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-28 Thread Joe Bowser
Can we keep track of which users make up which conspiracy theory, and the company that gets mentioned as ruining Cordova the most has to buy beer? I say this because at least this time Google got mentioned with Adobe, as opposed to "Adobe is going to kill PhoneGap1!!!eleventyone!!!" (Seriously,

Re: Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-28 Thread Brian LeRoux
I feel the comments there are not really constructive or fair. Cordova changes too much? Sorry, static code means bitrot aka abandonware. We work on Cordova because we are improving it for the many thousands of our users whom appreciate that. I don't need to tell you guys that but 1.8 was a mess c

Some pain points from our users :'(

2014-04-28 Thread Shazron
See: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/phonegap/II0qo-dSFWs/Fj8jkemGSbUJ