IMO, it would have been better to have Jude work via JIRA for a bit so we
could see his work and collaboration in the open which would have probably
resulted in him being voted in as a committer.

And, of course, it isn't too late to start doing that.

-Alex

On 6/5/14 2:02 PM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote:

>BTW, ³very active² is 59 commits since March 26. (I was working on it
>myself before that.)
>
>On Jun 5, 2014, at 11:58 PM, Harbs <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> FWIW, Jude and I have both been very active on the TLF table support.
>> 
>> We¹ve been working on a private Github repository because Jude is not a
>>committer and things are still quite unstable.
>> 
>> Current status is as follows:
>> * Tables render with cell strokes and backgrounds
>> * Selections of cell content and cell ranges work.
>> * Editing of cell content and surrounding text works
>> * Tables recompose as needed when cell content changes.
>> 
>> We¹ve radically changed the way table and sub elements are handled.
>> * Columns and rows are not normal children. They are informational only.
>> * Content within cells belong to a separate TextFlow.
>> * We¹ve introduced the concept of nested TextFlows and
>>SelectionManagers/EditManagers which are nested within each other.
>>Control is passed between parent and child SelectionManagers as needed.
>> * We¹ve introduced table blocks used for composition in a similar
>>manner to how TextFlowLines are used.
>> * The logic used for composition and selection is much more
>>understandable than what was originally written.
>> 
>> Work still needed:
>> * Lots of little rendering issues need to be resolved.
>> * Some normalization logic still needs to be implemented.
>> * Cell range selection needs to be improved.
>> * Text selection which spans tables needs work.
>> * Table editing operations still need to be done.
>> * Work still needs to be done relating to header and footer cells
>> * There¹s probably bugs related to cells which span rows/columns.
>> * Lots of tests need to be created.
>> * Markup import needs work.
>> 
>> That¹s about it.
>> 
>> I¹m guessing it¹ll be in shape where we can think about merging it back
>>into the develop branch in a couple of weeks.
>> 
>> Harbs
>> 
>> On Jun 5, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 6/5/14 5:00 AM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>>> In the past three months we've continued to see:
>>>>> - Continued JIRA activity (more bugs raised than resolved however)
>>>> Yep - we need more user and committers active here in helping to fix
>>>>bugs.
>>>> 
>>>>> - More committers becoming active again.
>>>> Looks steady to me:
>>>> http://www.ohloh.net/p/ApacheFlex/contributors/summary
>>> Hmm.  It felt like we saw more activity like Fred on FDB, Chris on
>>>Maven
>>> and contributions from Nick and MikeL.  I'm tempted to leave it in.
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> - Fewer new folks contributing and eventually becoming committers.
>>>> IMO (from mail list sign ups and installs that we have increased user
>>>> activity but we don't seem to be good at encouraging them to
>>>>contribute
>>>> more than JIRA reports. There's been a few exceptions ie we've just
>>>>had
>>>> some help with the Android skins.
>>> Are you suggestion that we not say this in the report?
>>> 
>>> -Alex
>>> 
>> 
>

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