On 6/3/13 6:49 PM, "Jeffry Houser" <jef...@dot-com-it.com> wrote:
> >On 6/3/2013 7:44 PM, Lee Burrows wrote: >> >> "while they could continue to exist in GitHub or Google Code, it isn't >> clear that anyone is really around to handle questions or bugs" - That >> would still be true if the projects were part of Apache Flex, and >> Apache is not an historical archive. >> >> "in a few cases, the code owners have indicated that they no longer >> wish to support a separate community around those bodies of code" - If >> nobody is willing to take ownership of a project (or at least put it >> on a free github account), how useful a project is it? > > I have had similar thoughts; but Lee stated them much more elegantly >than I. ( Thanks Lee). Yup, and your reasoning is well-considered. I'm not sure there is a 'right' answer, but IMO, we're all here to change the expected 'evolution' of Adobe's move away from in-house development of Flex. But we do have to keep an eye out for spreading ourselves too thin, showing favoritism for one framework vs another, etc. > > It is the primary reason I have been voting '0'. I, personally don't >see the mutual benefit to either project to get donated; but do not see >any benefit in trying to block the donation from others who seem to care >about it a lot more than I. > > When I last commented on Swiz; one response was > >"there are a few contributors that never got their improvements / bug >fixes merged to the project so anyone using swiz is missing those." > >http://markmail.org/search/+list:org.apache.incubator.flex-dev#query:list% >3Aorg.apache.incubator.flex-dev%20from%3A%22Jeffry%20Houser%22+page:1+mid: >wsd6vm6tjp6mba6z+state:results > > I have no idea how moving the project to Apache Flex will address that >issue. Because we have a process, any Apache Flex committer can make those changes to the code base and create a release candidate. And if anyone is that motivated, I will take the time to review the candidate, and I hope the others voting for donation will as well. And that's a better chance than I think the situation would be otherwise. -Alex
