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From: "Dimitri k."
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.
To follow up, I did speak to Thibault again yesterday at the Flash Paris
meeting.
He said that he understand our needs and he will see what can possibly be
done before the donation to help us prepare the next steps (MXML and HTML/JS
compilation).
As Alex told us, he is of course concerned about the implication in term of
delay, because Falcon is not only on a tight schedule, but also a
cornerstone of lots of the things Adobe is preparing for Flash, but he said
that he will contact the person in charge of Adobe open-source effort to see
what can be done without compromising Adobe schedule, like a close
prerelease program for example.
One thing that I really try to convey is the fact that every little step
could help the Apache Flex project momentum, that we understand Adobe
priorities around deadlines but we try to avoid an all or nothing situation.
So we have to wait to hear more about this, but at least things are going in
the right direction I think.
Dimitri K.
