I like the idea of the contrib folder/repo that Bertrand mentioned where we could collect these kind of libraries. If we make it clear to end users that these components may not be updated a lot, we should be good.
Thanks, Om On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Doug McCune <d...@dougmccune.com> wrote: > If there was any interest at all, I'm sure it would be easy to migrate the > flexlib code. There are a handful of contributors (me being one of the > largest), and I'm sure assuming we still have good email addresses for > everyone they'd all sign whatever is needed. > > Note that flexlib is nearly all Flex 3 components. There was work done to > get them working with the 4.x framework, but I don't think any spark stuff > was ever really created fresh, although I could be wrong. I haven't been > paying attention to the project for years. So maybe since it's all > non-Spark components y'all wouldn't want it anyway. > > It's on github these days: https://github.com/flex-users/flexlib but the > last commit was nearly a year ago. You won't find any interest from the > original creators of the project, and the only person who seems to have > been maintaining the project any more is Julien Nicoulaud ( > https://github.com/nicoulaj). > > > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz < > bdelacre...@apache.org > > wrote: > > > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Jeffry Houser <jef...@dot-com-it.com> > > wrote: > > > ... I could get the Flextras components donated, but didn't because > > assumed > > > Apache Flex didn't want to be the dumping ground for 'abandoned > code'... > > > > In general yes, but many Apache projects have a "contrib" source code > > folder for modules that are not necessarily actively maintained. > > > > As long as the project clearly defines what "contrib" means, so as to > > avoid wrong expectations, that's perfectly fine. > > > > -Bertrand > > >
