FWIW, I created this organization some time back: https://github.com/flex-extras
The idea was to have a place to put code that does not strictly belong on ASF repos. Harbs On Apr 19, 2016, at 1:16 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > On 4/18/16, 3:04 PM, "jude" <flexcapaci...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> So the components Tink donated years ago IIRC weren't completely finished >> (from what I read at the time they were still in progress) or that he may >> not even be part of the community anymore to maintain it. I still would >> have liked to have his and others work integrated into a sub swc whether >> they completely fit or not. Plus it's important to remember that people >> move on, change jobs, change careers whatever. > > If Tink committed code to an ASF repo, then you and other interested > committers can finish it. > >> >> Alex wrote: >>> So to be more clear, I am interested in collecting things related to >>> Flex >> that the community wants to maintain and improve. AS3Commons, SWIZ, >> Parsley, and all of those other 3rd party things that lots of folks use >> and are afraid the server that serves them might go away. But only if we >> have folks here willing to help maintain and create releases for that >> code, which is why there will be votes on each one. >> >> I agree. I can't tell you how many sites are down that used to host Flash >> and Flex code (all because of bad marketing Flash muckraking). But even if >> the projects are dead the least we could do is provide a graveyard here so >> if we ever need to dig up their rotting corpses we can do so > > IMO, taking in code requires a certain amount of energy for vetting and > releasing. ASF repos are not supposed to be a dumping ground. There > is/was something called Apache Extras. I personally don't want to get > distracted researching it, but if you and others interested want to look > into it, that may be the right place, or maybe some volunteer simply needs > to set up a space on GitHub for "lost" code. > > -Alex >
