This is great ! I am looking forward to reading the new documentation. Best regards Phlippe
2013/1/23 Rob Schroeder <schrdrr...@gmail.com> > Hi all, > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:25:41 +0100, Guillaume Smet wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Philippe Demaison > > <ph.demai...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Are you kidding ? > > > > First thing first, while everyone agrees that a good documentation is > > a good thing, you should consider that you don't pay anyone to write > > it. > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:08:35 +0100, Thies Edeling wrote: > > > Wicket is open source, if you feel that the documentation is lacking - > feel > > free to contribute. > > don't mean to offend anyone, but things like those are the least helpful > kind of answers possible. We all know Wicket is open source, we all know > what open source means, an we all know that we aren't paying anyone. > It's just that if someone had the resources to pay anyone or > significantly contribute to the documentation himself (*after* having > learned everything he'd need, and after doing so *without* a complete > reference), he'd probably not complain in the first place. More probable > is that he's already got a job to do himself and is just looking for the > best tool to do so. > > Of course, shouting abuse (not that I'd think anyone here did) at maybe > even unsalaried developers who are doing what they can doesn't help, > either. > > To add my experience to the subject, I bought the 'Wicket in Action' > book some time ago, and for my first steps with Wicket 6 I tried to > extract what I could from it and the Net. > > The problem is, just as Philippe said, much has changed between > versions, and it's not only that things I find sometimes don't apply > anymore, but, what's possibly worse, I can't even know whether code > examples I find still work until I tried them myself, as the changes > aren't really exhaustively documented and because, well, there is no > such thing as a Wicket 6 reference. > > As far as I am concerned, I'll keep trying to get into Wicket 6, though > - but that's something I'll be doing in my spare time, because I > probably won't ever see Wicket used at my main job, and so I can take my > time. > > Cheers, > Robert > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > >