> > At the Paris Flex meeting, I spoke with Thibault Imbert, who is Senior > Runtimes product manager , about the fact that the Apache Flex project > would really benefit from having some kind of early access to the new > Falcon compiler, at least to undestand it and to have to opportunity to > think about what we will have to do after the donation for the MXML and > HTML/JS part, and to help the project momentum by not waiting to 2013 to > start working on it. > > Thibault was really interested about this feedback, and quite open to > discuss what could possibly be done before the full donation in order to > help us move the projects forward. > I'm not a compiler guy at all so I used what I remembered from the > discussions on this list for my different ideas (from the best one for us > to the easiest for Adobe): > > - Early access to the source code in a Adobe Flex SDK way (see it but > don't touch it ;) ) > - Release of alpha/beta version of the compiler to start working with it > - Disclosure of the API/compiler mecanism > - Early documentation about how the compiler works > > I will see Thibault again at between 6.30PM and 8.30PM GMT + 1 (Paris), so > if compiler guys (Michael, David, etc.) would chime in and have some > ideas/precisions, I'd gladly forward them. >
That sounds pretty great Dimitri! I think what also would be important is some kind of feedback mechanism, so perhaps a dedicated JIRA instance where we can post bugs, patches, etc. No good in playing around with the code if we don't have a proper way of communicating with the development team. cheers, Roland
