jQuery as an organization

I got interested in jquery because I saw that Drupal had officially adopted it as their drop-in javascript library. Drupal is at the forefront of the open-source CMS world, and I've got a lot of respect for their design decisions and their community.

So when I needed a javascript/ajax library at work for a little project I was working on, I looked into jquery and started using it for it. So far I'm very impressed, though truth be told I'm a total noob to javascript. It's essentially a library that alters the way javascript interacts with the DOM, along with some advanced functions like map and grep.

I do see a couple problems with jquery as an "organization" however:

* Mail list as the primary method of communication: I mean, come on! Forums are by far superior to this.
* Fragmented plugins: We need a centralized plugin repository.
* Better documentation: Don't get me wrong. Visual jQuery is very nice as an api reference, but I'd like to see more complete examples and sample usage.

Honestly, we just need to port the jQuery.com website over to a Drupal platform and be done with it. GetjQuery.org isn't a bad idea, and it's a great example of trying to "do it right" without usurping authority. jQuery has hit the big time now (it will get much larger as Drupal 5 comes out) and it's time to lay the framework to accommodate that growth.

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I do see a couple problems

I do see a couple problems with jquery as an "organization" however:
---> just to re-phrase, better word would be "as a community"

* Mail list as the primary method of communication: I mean, come on! Forums are by far superior to this.
* Fragmented plugins: We need a centralized plugin repository.
* Better documentation: Don't get me wrong. Visual jQuery is very nice as an api reference, but I'd like to see more complete examples and sample usage.
---> agree with you on this, especially on the plugin part...downloading a certain plugin and combine with other has some incompatability problem, plugin_1 uses jquery rev152...plugin_2 uses jquery rev460 etc...

anyway, having a central plugin repository and each one uses the same latest revision, ensures that people/developer using/download it doesn't break their soon to be develop apps.On the 3rd item though, API is sufficient IMHO, there is from gotapi.com (thru Rich Manalang), John R. and Jorn Z XML and of course Yehuda's visualjquery.com...

jQuery is showing it's full potential and still so many to be discovered yet(thanks jquery community untiring effort/bug fixing/mailing list discussion)... sooner or maybe tomorrow not only Drupal CMS will embrace this powerful js/dom framework, others as well.Only time will tell... and let's just spread the jQuery news... c',)

cheers,
cdelfino

Hold on

Hi Adam,

Just to let you know the movement is starting on getting together the jQuery community.

Over christmas and new year, hopefully a lot of development is going to be put into this. Keep your eyes pealed for more news.

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