On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:18, you wrote:

> I have thought of three guides to write, but am not sure if they would be
> helpful, or which to do first.  Any suggestions?
>
> * Multiple Site Howto -- How to organize classes and actions so that a
> single turbine instance can serve multiple sites that may need to share
> common functionality

The above Howto might be useful to some people, but IMHO there are higher 
priorities; see below.

If you look at the Torque documentation, they currently have a Tutorial, a 
User Guide and a Developer Guide as well as various Howtos Guides.  I think 
this would work well for Turbine.  I personally think that the current 
Turbine 2.x documentation is spread out across too many Howto documents and 
that many of these could be compiled into a single comprehensive User Guide 
separated into appropriate chapters.

> * Service Howto/Introduction -- What services are, why they are nice, and
> how to write them

I think it would be good if Turbine Services took up a chapter in the Turbine 
2 User Guide.  See the existing service documentation for a place to start:
http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/turbine-2/apidocs/org/apache/turbine/services/package-summary.html
http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/turbine-2/services.html

> * Non TDK Howto -- I found the TDK confusing because it did a bunch of
> stuff that I didn't necessarily want.  So I learned about Turbine by
> removing everything, and putting it back in as I needed it.  This document
> would be a "tour" in the form of setting up an example app without using
> the TDK.

This would be the Turbine 2 Tutorial and would come with a sample 
application, similar in structure to the Torque Tutorial.  I think this would 
probably be the most important document to write.  If we had a Tutorial, we 
would no longer need a TDK.

I was in the process of migrating my Turbine 2.1 application over to Turbine 
2.2-RC1 a couple of weeks ago, and I began writing a Turbine 2.1 to 2.2 
Migration Howto.  Unfortunately, work has become very busy so I haven't had a 
chance to complete it yet.  Paul Smith had also volunteered to rewrite/update 
the TDK Howto to reflect the differences between TDK-2.1 and TDK-2.2, but he 
is waiting for the final release of TDK-2.2 before he starts.

Regards,

-- Rodney

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