GitHub user breautek added a comment to the discussion: Modernizing Apache 
Cordova: A Roadmap to Attract Developers and Align with Current Standards

I think some of these ideas are great but when the project is mostly maintained 
by a handful of volunteers, it's just simply not feasible.

### TypeScript

100% support this, but it is a daunting task to go from JS authored sources to 
TS, especially when the JS sources very likely is fluid and don't adhere to any 
formal typings, it may be hard to go to strict TS without introducing breaking 
changes. When it comes volunteer work, large scale projects tends to stall and 
go stale before completion. Historically the community wanted to keep to JS 
authored sources.

### Verified Plugin Ecosystem

This is more of a manpower issue, whose going to maintain such a list? To not 
only add to, but to remove when plugin is no longer being maintained? Many 
plugins are not updated simply because they don't need updates, they are 
stable, working API. Others the plugin authors comes and goes.

We do have: 
https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/12.x-2025.01/third-party/index.html but not 
strictly about plugins.

Note that Apache policy dictates this page to be hidden in a sub-screen. It 
cannot be emphasized on the home screen.

### Modern Web API Support

Most of this are going to heavily depend on the underlying webview. Cordova 
does not implement the webview, we just package content around the webview. 
While some webview features can be polyfilled, things like services workers or 
web assembly I don't think can be, so if they are not supported by `WKWebView` 
on iOS, or the android system webview, then we wouldn't be able to provide 
support for it. I think some of these features are intentionally disabled on 
webview by Apple/Google.

### UI Starter Templates

Cordova strives to be agnostic to the web technologies. Apps are free to bring 
in angular, reactjs, or whatever other UI framework they choose, but it 
wouldn't hurt to have more Hello World templates. I think we already support 
changing the template to an alternate git repo when creating cordova projects. 
So I think I'd support any effort in creating a docs page + some template repos.

(See https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/12.x-2025.01/guide/cli/template.html)

### Backend Integration Templates

I think I feel about the same as this as I do with the UI starter templates. 
The only other comment I have is we need to make sure that these templates are 
"offline-first". Mobile applications as expected from Google & Apple should 
appear to support offline mode. This means we can't really rely on 
NodeJS/Express views for example. The backend structure should, generally 
speaking, be limited to a restful API for data exchange. All UI should be 
bundled in the cordova so that it can gracefully handle offline situations.

### Community and Branding Revival

Most of this I think needs communication with Apache Legal. Like I'm not sure 
how "updatable" the logo is when it comes to copyrighting and trademarking.

> Showcase of apps built with Cordova

We've had this at one point, but all apps that was showcase have either 
disappeared over the years or was otherwise not verifiable, or obviously was no 
longer made with Cordova. We could probably bring back an app showcase page if 
we have a good handful of apps to showcase. If we were to bring back an app 
showcase, it would have the same policy as the third-party tools page I think.

Apache's concern on pages showcasing third-party services/tools and apps is 
they become or feel like a big advert page. So the content must not feel 
"advertisy" or appear in any way that Apache endorses the third-party content.

> Create official Discord or Discourse server for support and knowledge sharing

Apache has policy where the official discussion board must be the Apache 
mailing list. The mailing list is open, and searchable which makes 
documentable. It is old school, but a requirement of Apache. 

Apache does permit unofficial channels, but they had problems with stuff like 
Slack or Discord where the content may not be available after a certain period 
of time. We do have a slack channel with the link on 
https://cordova.apache.org/contribute/ but Apache requires us to keep that link 
somewhat buried and for us to encourage using boards that are archivable, that 
maintains a searchable history so that knowledge does not expire (e.g. slack 
has limited history). For this purpose, Apache did deem [GH 
Discussions](https://github.com/apache/cordova/discussions) as an acceptable 
knowledge board.


GitHub link: 
https://github.com/apache/cordova/discussions/555#discussioncomment-13793430

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