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Subject: Re: What's going on here?
From: David Crossley <crossley@indexgeo.com.au>
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Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> Steven Noels wrote:
<snip/>
>
> > The fact that it is being overpublicized is counterproductive.
> 
> I totally agree with this.
> 
> Forrest is *NOT* even close to be ready for prime time (it can't even 
> replace damn stylebook, for &deity;'s sake!) and I would not use it for 
> production (there is a reason if Cocoon itself doesn't use it!)
> ...

It is just that Cocoon docs and current publication process
are very complex to get Forrest to build and publish. Also many
hands are needed and not much action yet. See cocoon-docs list
and the proposal-in-preparation at:
http://wiki.cocoondev.org/Wiki.jsp?page=ForrestProposal

Forrest is fine for prime time - many of us use it for
production sites. I do not care if it is not fast - it does
much of what i need already.

In my opinion there is too much talk and new feature rush, and
not enough attention to existing features and documentation.
This is particularly evident on cocoon-dev but also forrest-dev.
Such lack of polish is our main downfall.

--David