Backpack for Laravel is now in public beta. Its philosophy is to provide the building blocks for you to build your admin panel, each functionality as a separate package. Basically, it's a Laravel version of Grocery CRUD + the great free AdminLTE theme + some extra packages you often need (log management, backups, lang file management, settings, news, menus) that you can combine to create an awesome admin panel.

It's my first attempt at a mass market open-source project, so I'm very eager to understand:

1. is admin panel building an itch for many developers or just me?

2. is the documentation good enough or at least on the right track?

3. is the positioning on the "easy-to-customize -> full-featured axis" good enough? because this is what I don't like in most alternatives - that they're way to difficult to customize;

4. is the installation process too difficult? is a command-line wizard necessary or not really?

5. what should I do to promote these packages and gather more feedback?

Thank you!