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On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM Josh Tynjala <joshtynj...@apache.org> wrote: > Hey all, > > So a while back Adobe removed the Using Flex documentation from their > website. At least for a while, they were redirecting to a PDF (they still > might, I haven't checked lately). However, the original HTML pages are long > gone. > > I happened to be looking at some old content on the Apache Flex development > mailing list, and I discovered this thread, "[DISCUSS] Flex Doc Donation" > where the Apache Flex project discussed accepting a donation of the Using > Flex documentation from Adobe: > > https://lists.apache.org/thread/njqfyqtdttoyx2lybflfv07h9bfnp8s8 > > I found the vote result thread here, where the project agreed to accept the > donation: > > https://lists.apache.org/thread/rlk4ro0gtxdrmbtxm1b77g0pzqv7kztm > > I also see that the content was committed into the "flexdoc" branch of the > apache/flex-site repo: > > https://github.com/apache/flex-site/tree/flexdoc/content/doc/flex/using > > It was never officially published on the actual Apache Flex website, > though. > > It would be nice to get that content back up on the web. Technically, most > of the original Adobe URLs are available from the Wayback Machine on > archive.org, but that's not really ideal. It's slow, and you can't find > anything from there on search engines. > > Question: Does anyone recall if any specific tasks were still _legally_ > required to prepare this content before publishing it on the Apache Flex > website? Or was it mostly just cleaning up formatting and stuff like that? > > Either way, I'd like to get it done, just to make this resource available > again. While there probably aren't a ton of devs still working on Flex > projects anymore, there are definitely still some. I was just contacted by > one the other day looking for a little guidance. It would be nice to have > Using Flex available on the web for those few who still might benefit from > it. > > -- > Josh Tynjala > Bowler Hat LLC > https://bowlerhat.dev/ > -- Andrew Wetmore Editor, Moose House Publications <https://moosehousepress.com/> Editor-Writer, The Apache Software Foundation <https://apache.org/>
