I know this has nothing to do with the original discussion, which actually summed my position quite well too
Every time there is a new component or code from Tink, I ALWAYs just add it to my sdk base as start using it right away. I trust it that much. The process we are at the beginning of is going to be long and frustrating for sure. The problem with that, as stated in the original post is that while we all strive to get things moving the world outside continues to move on without us (sort of). What worries me is how are we going to start making those who will sign our pay cheques see that Flex is already a (the only) viable choice for many applications? How can we start to turn the tide of negative feeling against us? We can write all the blog posts we like but the people in management don't read dev blogs, and don't know or care what we are doing here. In the last 8 months Ive gone from a successful bespoke application developer with a bank of happy clients to being a person who spends quiet a lot of time dealing with questions from those same clients asking me why Ive knowingly sold them solutions based on 'depreciated' technology. All we can do is keep doing what we're doing and hope that collectively we can prove them wrong. glenn -----Original Message----- From: Tink [mailto:f...@tink.ws ] Sent: 12 March 2012 23:12 To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [OT] What are we doing here? On 12 Mar 2012, at 22:57, Justin Mclean wrote: > >> Tink's layouts have been around forever, been used by quite a bit of >> the Flex community and, I feel, fill a need in the SDK but remain in >> his whiteboard. Why? > Perhaps he feels that are not ready yet or that they need more > testing? But that doesn't stop people from using them. There's been little interest in the layouts and navigator stuff on this list TBH. There's quite a bit of code there so I understand it takes a lot of commitment to trail through the code and understand it. I'll just keep committing stuff and open sourcing it via github and my blog as well and and see what happens here. Maybe I'm just not familiar enough with he process here to push them along. Tink
