On 22/02/2012 18:29, Dimitri k. wrote:
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.
Dimitri K.
Isn't it interesting for Adobe to get input from the Apache community
about the project? They want to commit it in the end, right? To commit
it the developers here should approve the commission. It is somewhat
risky for Adobe to develop something for a year or two, hoping that its
in sync with the aims that Apache Flex has by then.
I think its Adobe should be strongly encourage its developers to discuss
things/questions on the mailinglist and ask for help. Not just that:
Adobe is always free to ask for help here. And I for one would be
curious as to what Adobe is working on.
But aside from that: creating a "closed-no-eyes" development attitude is
a little uncomfortable giving that all other contributors discuss their
contributions in public. I saw that the contributions Adobe did till now
take a while and I am sure they will take a while for Falcon as well: If
you have "from start" a open development model then they might avoid
this effort in the "big contribution" process and they would get input
right away.
yours
Martin.
