5:26 a.m.
Hi guys,
I wanted to share one user experience feedback with you. At university, I had a lecture
about NoSQL datastores and Infinispan was also mentioned. The lecturer also showed some
code examples. To my surprise, he used Infinispan 6. So after the lecture I asked him why
version 6, not 7, and his answer was quite surprising.
He told me that he got angry on Infinispan 7 documentation, because many code snippet
examples were from old 6 version and that he was basically unable to configure it in a
reasonable time. So he threw it away and switched back to Infinispan 6. I justed wanted to
make a little discussion about this, because I think this is quite a big issue.
I noticed that part of this issue was fixed just recently (18 hours ago, nice coincidence
:)) by [1] (+10000 Gustavo), but there are still some out-of-date examples.
But the message I want to say, we should pay attention to this (I know, boring) stuff,
because we're basically discouraging users/community from using the newest version.
Every customer/user will start playing with the community version and if he's not able
to set it up in a few moments, he will move on to another product. And we don't want
that, right? :)
I also have clap the effort of Tristan with step-by-step tutorial, that's exactly what
user wants and I would be happy to help you in anyway (verifying, keeping up-to-date,
whatever) with it.
Conclusion: let's pay more attention to documentation, it's the entering point for
every newcomer and we want to make as best first impression as possible :)
Thanks,
Jirka
P.S.: I don't see the changes from [1] in Infinispan User Guide [2], am I missing
something or will it appear there later?
[1] https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan/pull/3011/
[2] http://infinispan.org/docs/7.0.x/user_guide/user_guide.html
6:03 a.m.
I noticed that part of this issue was fixed just recently (18 hours
ago, nice coincidence :)) by [1] (+10000 Gustavo), but there are still some out-of-date
examples.
Could you open a jira for it?
P.S.: I don't see the changes from [1] in Infinispan User Guide [2], am I missing
something or will it appear there later?
It will appear very soon with 7.0.0.Final release
[1] https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan/pull/3011/
[2] http://infinispan.org/docs/7.0.x/user_guide/user_guide.html
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4:01 a.m.
My big +1 here.
This is something we really need to address, see e.g.:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26753263/how-to-setup-infinispan-cache...
We need to somehow change new users' sentences from (citation ^):
"The documentation found in Internet is so vague and doesn't suit a
beginner."
to
"Wow, ISPN doc is awesome and I only need a bit of help with this little detail to
achieve what I want to do."
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jiri Holusa" <jholusa(a)redhat.com>
To: "infinispan -Dev List" <infinispan-dev(a)lists.jboss.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 11:26:56 AM
Subject: [infinispan-dev] Infinispan 7 documentation
Hi guys,
I wanted to share one user experience feedback with you. At university, I had
a lecture about NoSQL datastores and Infinispan was also mentioned. The
lecturer also showed some code examples. To my surprise, he used Infinispan
6. So after the lecture I asked him why version 6, not 7, and his answer was
quite surprising.
He told me that he got angry on Infinispan 7 documentation, because many code
snippet examples were from old 6 version and that he was basically unable to
configure it in a reasonable time. So he threw it away and switched back to
Infinispan 6. I justed wanted to make a little discussion about this,
because I think this is quite a big issue.
I noticed that part of this issue was fixed just recently (18 hours ago, nice
coincidence :)) by [1] (+10000 Gustavo), but there are still some
out-of-date examples.
But the message I want to say, we should pay attention to this (I know,
boring) stuff, because we're basically discouraging users/community from
using the newest version. Every customer/user will start playing with the
community version and if he's not able to set it up in a few moments, he
will move on to another product. And we don't want that, right? :)
I also have clap the effort of Tristan with step-by-step tutorial, that's
exactly what user wants and I would be happy to help you in anyway
(verifying, keeping up-to-date, whatever) with it.
Conclusion: let's pay more attention to documentation, it's the entering
point for every newcomer and we want to make as best first impression as
possible :)
Thanks,
Jirka
P.S.: I don't see the changes from [1] in Infinispan User Guide [2], am I
missing something or will it appear there later?
[1] https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan/pull/3011/
[2] http://infinispan.org/docs/7.0.x/user_guide/user_guide.html
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