With the successful release of 4.8.0-incubating it would be timely to
have a discussion/consensus around the priorities going forward.
A couple of fundamental factors should be considered in this discussion:
1) Adobe resources are not indefinite and from statements made early
in the year it is possible they may no longer be available within
6+/- months (plan for the worst case). Once these resources are gone
it will be significantly harder to access/transition code assets;
2) Successful open source projects/communities are commercially
viable, as much as open source is about cool technologies and code
it is also about having the resources to do what they want for as
long as they want;
3) Within the Fortune 1000 companies which has the greater installed
base and therefore need for support/transition - Flex 3;
4) This is not a typical open source project that grows over time,
this is a commercially viable product with a significant customer
base and ecosystem, Apache Flex does not have the luxury of time as
organizations wrestle with the decisions in the 6-12 months over
Flex versus HTML5/JS/CSS (hope is not a roadmap).
After gleaning through emails and blog posts the following is a list of
potential things-to-do-next (please identify anything needing
addition/deletion). When considering what is a priority, ask yourself
'is this essential to Apache Flex success beyond the next 6-12 months':
1) 4.6 ViewStack
2) 4.6 Accordion
3) 4.6 DateField
4) 4.6 DataChooser
5) 4.6 Enhanced DataGrid
6) 4.6 missing automation libraries
7) 4.6 missing fabridge
8) 4.6 missing flash-integration
9) 4.6 missing samples
10) 4.6 missing embedded font support
11) 3.x Flex SDK
12) Flex compiler source code
13) BlazeDS/BlazeDS.NET
14) TLF
15) Gravity
16) FXG
17) Squiggles
18) OSMF
Notes:
Falcon and Falcon JS are not on the list until Q4 2012 and beyond
Adobe "Not be contributing the AIR for Linux SDK, LCDS, or LCCS to Apache"
Adobe "will ensure that the Adobe Flex SDK 4.6 and prior will be
supported in future versions of Flash Player and AIR
Adobe "plans to maintain support for Flex projects in updates to Flash
Builder 4.x"
