Greg, I see why you might be worried about future additional projects, but the sub-projects you mention (Falcon, SDK, FlexJS) are very much part of one and the same project. Other sub-projects are purely for supporting the community and various workflows (Installer, Maven) and are "too small" to make sense on their own.
I don't know much about Swiz, but what I know seems to points in the direction of "should exist separate but next to the SDK". As long as the various sub-projects are strongly tied to the central project (FlexSDK), I don't think we are in danger of fragmenting and I'm convinced that the synergy between them will bring additional value to all of them. EdB On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Greg Reddin <gred...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > >> >> Greg, do you think donations like these need to have a goal of being >> integrated with Apache Flex or becoming its own project? Personally, I'd >> be ok with Apache Flex being a warehouse of all kinds of Flex-related code >> even if there is no active development for it. > > > There's a couple of things to consider here: > > 1) The board does not favor "umbrella" projects. Jakarta was an umbrella > project and it contained (at one time) Struts, Tomcat, Commons, JMeter, and > a whole bunch of Java-related projects. It became clear that the Jakarta > community was too fragmented to get consensus so it spun off all those > projects into TLPs. That could easily start to happen here. > > 2) This mailing list is already too high-traffic to follow. Practically, we > could probably already split up the Flex project into multiple projects. It > seems to me that folks are starting to gel around different efforts, like > getting new releases of the SDK, vs. compilers, etc. It could be that we > need to form new PMCs or it could be that we just need to enact > sub-projects. But we have to be careful with sub-projects to avoid point 1 > above. > > It's hard to know where the breaking point is. Probably it has to do with > whether the community is having a hard time pushing out releases or just > whether it "feels" fragmented. I'm not proposing that we break up now, but > we should probably be thinking about whether the Falcon project, for > example, has its own distinct community from the SDK. > > Greg -- Ix Multimedia Software Jan Luykenstraat 27 3521 VB Utrecht T. 06-51952295 I. www.ixsoftware.nl
