Acknowledgments

Many people helped in the last few years with constructive comments and critique, advice and questions around arc42.

Ralf D. Müller is the good soul and tireless committer in the arc42 open-source universe: He answers support questions, maintains the tool-chain that generates arc42 from its AsciiDoc sources and keeps our Github-issues in check. Thank you so much!

We like to thank Martin Dungs, Uwe Friedrichsen, Phillip Ghadir, Mahbouba Gharbi, Franz Hofer, Prof. Arne Koschel, Jürgen Krey, Anton Kronseder, Prof. Bernd Müller, Alex Nachtigall, Axel Noellchen, Robert Reiner, Markus Schärtel, Roland Schimmack, Michael Simons, Boris Stumm, Daniel Takai, Eberhard Wolff, Oliver Wronka and Stefan Zörner for their support during preparation of this book.

Special thanx to Pedro Lafuente Blanco, Stefan Paal, Christopher Schmidt, Silvia Schreier, Per Starke and Oliver Tigges for their constructive and insightful reviews and suggestions.

innoQ supports arc42 by hosting the arc42 Confluence wiki and the arc42.org website. Christian Sarazin clears away all the technical debris. Thanx to my skillful, knowledgeable, competent and critical colleagues.

Cover design by Andreas Steinbrecher.

Parts of translation from the German original were supported by Sven Johann and Per Starke.

Gernot: thanks Uli, Lynn und Per: You are superb, the best family in the universe. My time with you is always too short.

Peter: Special thanks to my wife Monika. You not only survived yet another book project but enriched it by your helpful insights and comments from the non-IT world.

Status

Dear Readers,

the current version of this book is a pre-release: Only a few parts have been finished, many others (especially chapter IV) are still under heavy work.

We do our best to fill the missing gaps asap - and we will continue to publish early, publish often. Leanpub will notify you of updates.

Revisions

  • V 0.2.0: March 26th 2016: first published version, containing I-III and V, skeletons of VI and VII.
  • March 2016: new cover (thanx, Andreas), chapter 1, 2, 3
  • January 2016: initial German version, start of translation on Leanpub.
  • March 2016: Sven Johann joined the translation effort (thx!)
  • April 2016: moved to Github with webhooks

Up next

I. Introduction