The scale of the Vaadin forum has been growing quite a bit since the forum categorization was created. This has made using the categories quite hard and confusing. Some of the problems with the current categorization: Vaadin 7 is released shortly and with having a separate Vaadin 7 category the discussions of alphas and betas will be mixed other Vaadin discussions, client-side development is quite a separate thing, but now it is mixed in other discussions, general help and miscellaneous categories are huge, …
Here is a proposal for new categorization of topics. Would you like this better or worse than the current one?
News & Announcements
Server-side development
Components, data-sources and API
Browser-side development
Google web toolkit (GWT), JavaScript and HTML5
Add-ons
How to use them, how to build them
Theming
CSS, SASS and discussion design
Architecture
Application Architecture, Integrations and Java EE
Tools & Languages
Other JVM languages, IDEs, testing and build systems
Deployment
Servers, portals and clouds
Future and Feedback
Developing the next version, big ideas and feedback
Lounge
Miscellaneous chat, show off what you have developed
I like it better, but where is the separation of Vaadin 6 and Vaadin 7? The Vaadin 7 category should have two sub-categories
Beta and
Release . If you don’t like these sub-categories, you can think about
selectable tags for the topic . This would made it clear if it’s about alpha, beta or release. I’ve seen this in other forums and it helps a lot to clarify the things. An entry in the list would look like this i.e.:
[Vaadin 7 alpha 10]
Problem with... Andreas Lüdtke 2 123 2012-12-20 12:00:00
While you are working on the forum: could you please implement the features
Mark all messages as read and
Show new messages since last login ?
It looks perfect! But I’m agree with Andreas when he says that it could be a real separation between v6 and v7, the development is a little different, and may cause troubles in the resolution of problems related to one or another version.
Maybe a branch or parent section with all the sections that you put in your post for each stable version (previous, current) and another one for future releases, could be interesting.
If we would split all categories in Vaadin 6 and Vaadin 7, we would have quite a few more categories. What should then happen with Vaadin 8 or even 7.3?
Mark all messages read and show new since last login would be great. Hope we can implement them in vaadin.com/tori after we get the first stable version out.