Re: Mailing list footers?

2012-02-05 Thread Matthew Poole
sounds sensible... On 6 February 2012 06:45, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi, > > There were some discussions recently about adding an automatic footer > to all Flex mailing list messages. > > I suggest adding just this: > > -- > See http://incubator.apache.org/flex/mailing-lists.html for infor

Re: AS3 Enhancements: method overloading. Why do people want this?

2012-01-16 Thread Matthew Poole
You can always just use a custom namespace to acieve overloading. e.g. namespace addString; namespace addNumber; addString function Sum(a:String,b:String):String { return a+b; } addNumber function Sum(a:Number,b:Number):Number { return a+b; } On 16 January 2012 15:33, Rui Silva wrote: > > > F

Re: GPU / DisplayList / Future of Flex

2012-01-15 Thread Matthew Poole
Ah focus too. That does pretty much destroy any accessibility, we'd have to be very careful as reputationally poor support for accessibility would be bad (as we've seen historically) On 15 January 2012 07:05, Alex Harui wrote: > > > > On 1/14/12 1:55 AM, "Matthew P

Re: [VOTE] PPMC members to decide voting procedure

2012-01-15 Thread Matthew Poole
rs/designers that do feel they have > multiple logo designs. > > > Mike > > Quoting Matthew Poole : > > Cool. >> >> On 14 Jan 2012 13:08, "Michael Schmalle" wrote: >> >> Hi, >>> >>> """ >>>

Re: [VOTE] PPMC members to decide voting procedure

2012-01-14 Thread Matthew Poole
te the rules say "design" not logo. What you are worried about is not an > issue. > > AIt has also been stated that the url that was submitted is the design > being voted on even if designers make newer versions, they need to update > the original submission url. > >

Re: [VOTE] PPMC members to decide voting procedure

2012-01-14 Thread Matthew Poole
Incidentally, many of the logos on the submissions page have multiple variations. How would the voters know the are voting for the same variation of a specific logo? Might not be important, but perhaps we should have stipulated that the entrants provide one variation only per submission, but allow

Re: GPU / DisplayList / Future of Flex

2012-01-14 Thread Matthew Poole
>> Such a thing is possible, although there may be issues around accessibility are you thinking screen readers or something else? On 13 January 2012 00:42, Alex Harui wrote: > > > > On 1/12/12 1:26 AM, "Arnoud Bos" wrote: > > > So i tend to think that Adobe dropped flex for this reason too (the

Re: Please point back here if you create Flex things around the web (was: Have Adobe ever published a list...)

2012-01-13 Thread Matthew Poole
added link from my blog... On 13 January 2012 09:07, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Jeffry Houser > wrote: > > > > I went and created an Apache Flex Page on Facebook: > > > > http://www.facebook.com/pages/ApacheFlex/174249699342648 > > Could you add a prominent li

Re: [VOTE] PPMC members to decide voting procedure

2012-01-13 Thread Matthew Poole
Perhaps the PPMC could select a short list and the community can vote from within there That way the community has a voice, but it will not be fully about who has the biggest twitter following. On 13 January 2012 14:43, Skogen, Espen wrote: > Agree > > > Espen Skogen | Vice President | IB Tech

Re: ActionScript and Apache Flex

2012-01-13 Thread Matthew Poole
On 13 Jan 2012, at 11:36, Matthew Poole wrote: > > ...but still have dependences on the runtime fom Adobe. >> >> That would make project management significantly more complex. >> >> On 13 January 2012 11:31, Matthew Poole wrote: >> > > We wouldn'

Re: ActionScript and Apache Flex

2012-01-13 Thread Matthew Poole
...though we'd then be beholden to Nicolas and his community for updates to the HaXe compiler, but still have dependences on the runtime fom Adobe. That would make project management significantly more complex. On 13 January 2012 11:31, Matthew Poole wrote: > >> This could be a c

Re: ActionScript and Apache Flex

2012-01-13 Thread Matthew Poole
>> This could be a crazy idea, but how about us moving to Haxe? Love the leftfield thinking Tink. It would be worth serious consideration IMO if Falcon JS turns out to be a no-go. 2012/1/13 Frédéric Thomas > From: David Arno >> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 11:14 AM >> > > The advantages that

Re: [LOGO] Denis Kristianto

2012-01-13 Thread Matthew Poole
>> but I'm still confused the intent of the rule This will be reagrding the cost of printing in any more than two colours, we'd need to establilsh that it looks good under these circumstances. fairly standard. I really like the improvements. Tinks suggestions are good (though with the broken X you

Re: Logos and Voting

2012-01-12 Thread Matthew Poole
I woudnt say it's voting so much as suggesting preference. You are absolutely right the final vote will be the one that counts. On 12 January 2012 16:28, Leif Wells wrote: > All, > > I am a bit concerned about seeing people vote on specific logos. I am > wondering if this is appropriate. > > I w

Re: [VOTE] blog post

2012-01-12 Thread Matthew Poole
:) we're just trying out the "+1" keys in the absense of anything more significant to vote on. On 12 January 2012 14:29, Michael Schmalle wrote: > Quoting Bertrand Delacretaz : > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Rui Silva wrote: >> >>> ...Just a question, should all blog posts be voted here

Re: [VOTE] blog post

2012-01-12 Thread Matthew Poole
Perhaps mention that there is no user list a the mo as discussed in the other thread? On 12 January 2012 13:58, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Peter Elst wrote: > > ...As per Bertrand's proposal I have a post I'd like to publish on the > blog,... > > Looks good to

Re: [LOGO] Denis Kristianto

2012-01-12 Thread Matthew Poole
>> I'd just tone down the Apache word a bit It certainly doesnt work for the smaller log sizes. the font becomes blurred. On 12 January 2012 13:22, Rui Silva wrote: > MAtt wrote: > > > I like this one a lot. I dont think its significantly close to any of > the > > other logos to cause issue (not

Re: [VOTE] blog post

2012-01-12 Thread Matthew Poole
+1 (non member) On 12 January 2012 13:38, Peter Elst wrote: > Hi everyone, > > As per Bertrand's proposal I have a post I'd like to publish on the blog, > see below. Setting up a vote with 24 hour lazy consensus "if no one opposes > within 24 hours I'll post this" (or as soon as I get my blog ac

Re: Do we want a flex-users list now, and who volunteers to moderate it?

2012-01-12 Thread Matthew Poole
; On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Matthew Poole >wrote: > > > Perhaps we should review the situation. If the dev list becomes the > defacto > > users list before the first release then we will still end up with the > "are > > we there yet" questions in t

Re: ActionScript and Apache Flex

2012-01-12 Thread Matthew Poole
>> why do you absolutely have to have equivalency with Java I agree we shouldnt use any other language as a benchmark. ActionScript is flexible where Java is not in many cases. We shouldnt risk loosingf expressiveness for the sake of equivalent language features. I do agree strongly that we should

Re: [LOGO] Denis Kristianto

2012-01-12 Thread Matthew Poole
I like this one a lot. I dont think its significantly close to any of the other logos to cause issue (not that Im a brand lawyer!). Matt On 12 January 2012 11:12, Denis Kristianto wrote: > @paul > wow, I really do not know about it. I first saw the logo of the bank. thank > you for the informati

Re: Do we want a flex-users list now, and who volunteers to moderate it?

2012-01-12 Thread Matthew Poole
Perhaps we should review the situation. If the dev list becomes the defacto users list before the first release then we will still end up with the "are we there yet" questions in the wrong forum. We are not seeing that yet so we could defer the decision. On the flip side we could accept that users

Re: ActionScript and Apache Flex

2012-01-11 Thread Matthew Poole
Maybe not with mxmlc, but falcon has lots of grunt. On 11 January 2012 21:42, Alex Harui wrote: > > > > On 1/11/12 12:57 PM, "Matthew Poole" wrote: > > > preprossessing meta data sounds great, especially for DI etc > Just remember that preprocessing slows d

Re: ActionScript and Apache Flex

2012-01-11 Thread Matthew Poole
preprossessing meta data sounds great, especially for DI etc Parametric polymorophism would be pretty cool too, it would allow for much more generic abstractions... On 11 January 2012 19:00, Alex Harui wrote: > > > > On 1/11/12 2:38 AM, "Dirk Eismann" wrote: > > > > > I think I saw some JIRA i

Re: Where should people ask basic development questions?

2012-01-11 Thread Matthew Poole
>>I think the existing community driven places where folks ask questions and exchange their knowledge already work. +1 to that On 11 January 2012 10:13, Dirk Eismann wrote: > > Apart from that people just go to whatever community resources they want. > > agreed. There are lots of non-official f

Re: ActionScript and Apache Flex

2012-01-11 Thread Matthew Poole
+lots to exciting times On 10 January 2012 23:50, Alex Harui wrote: > > > > On 1/10/12 3:26 PM, "David Arno" wrote: > > > I assume you mean here that the mxmlc compiler uses code also found in > the > > asc compiler? > Yes. Actually, these days, it shortcuts that a bit, but that was > essentia

Re: Petition: Flash Catalyst must survive

2012-01-10 Thread Matthew Poole
+1 this is an opportunity to release legacy code for the greater good. On 10 January 2012 22:29, Alex Harui wrote: > > > > On 1/10/12 2:18 PM, "Jonathan Campos" wrote: > > > I guess more of a simple execution. But that is besides the point. I'm > more > > interested in your thoughts to a newer

Re: Logo Contest information

2012-01-10 Thread Matthew Poole
+1 this is a volunteer community. On 10 January 2012 21:57, Peter Elst wrote: > > I asked Aaron Houston if the AUG team would like to sponsor this... he > felt > > that this was more in-line with the Product team, so we should ask them. > > > > Not to stir things up but I have the impression the

Re: ActionScript and Apache Flex

2012-01-10 Thread Matthew Poole
>> I don't understand how the compiler can affect the language Am I correct in thinking if the bytecode generated was understood by the runime you could make changes to how the language looked before it compiled? I dont see any usecases for this and I dont see it as a good idea either so non-starte

Re: logo thread discussion?

2012-01-10 Thread Matthew Poole
That does beg the question how we organise tracking votes anyway On 10 January 2012 16:17, Peter Elst wrote: > I'm wondering if we should be providing feedback on the logo threads coming > in and have people make variations based on that. I'd say if people want > feedback they can always reach o

Re: ActionScript and Apache Flex

2012-01-10 Thread Matthew Poole
Have Adobe said it would continue to use compc / mxmlc internally? Either way the runtime would still have to support the languages features added so that limits whats possible. On 10 January 2012 16:18, Raju Bitter wrote: > 2012/1/10 Matthew Poole : > > I dont think it necessaril

Re: ActionScript and Apache Flex

2012-01-10 Thread Matthew Poole
Very interesting. I dont think it necessarily follows that because the compiler is donated that control over the language is assumed. Though it would be fantastic to add some of the languges features that have been added to HaXe... On 10 January 2012 10:51, David Arno wrote: > I think you raise

Re: my suggestions

2012-01-10 Thread Matthew Poole
...and so say all of us! On 10 January 2012 14:49, Rui Silva wrote: > > From: "Raju Bitter" > > Sent: terça-feira, 10 de Janeiro de 2012 14:37 > > (...) But the future is > > JavaScript/HTML5 - which even Adobe has admitted. > > > > - Raju > > Before hell breaks loose (again), I'd would like to

Re: LOGO

2012-01-10 Thread Matthew Poole
I quite like this, its a nice idea. Definately a contender. On 10 January 2012 13:21, Quentin Le Hénaff wrote: > what about a curved arrows from the center to the edges ? > like it's "flexible and spreading"? > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Hercules Fisherman > wrote: > > > accept it is t

Re: Playing around with Carlos' logo proposal

2012-01-10 Thread Matthew Poole
Its pretty cool, but looks a bit close to the Adobe logo, there may be issues with that... On 10 January 2012 09:33, Rui Silva wrote: > Hi, > > As I've told earlier, I played around a little bit with Carlos' logo > proposal and came up with a few variations that, to my eyes, solve one of > the p

Re: Wish list for Apache Flex

2012-01-09 Thread Matthew Poole
>>AOP is probably a language thing, which we do not have control of. Fair point Alex, AOP probably would better be a language feature rather than a framework feature. Though we might see something sooner if we implement it as a framework feature. Having said that if enough f the micro-architecture

Re: Logo Contest information

2012-01-09 Thread Matthew Poole
Are we ready to start, can we blog the competition? On 9 January 2012 19:37, Anne Kathrine Petterøe wrote: > On 9 January 2012 18:20, Bertrand Delacretaz > wrote: > > > > Don't you want to add some information about what people win? > > > > IMO the only prize is that we'll give credit somewhere

Re: committing .* files

2012-01-09 Thread Matthew Poole
+ 1 individual dev set up should not be committed On 9 January 2012 17:11, Jun Heider wrote: > +1 to what Campos said. That's what README are for. > On Jan 9, 2012 9:01 AM, "Roland Zwaga" wrote: > > > +1! :) > > > > On 9 January 2012 16:59, Jonathan Campos wrote: > > > > > I'd really love to s

Re: Wish list for Apache Flex

2012-01-09 Thread Matthew Poole
+1 to the AOP idea On 9 January 2012 17:06, Jonathan Campos wrote: > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Michael Schmalle >wrote: > > > I agree to, something that would deprecate the; > > > It will probably be something I will focus on. So I can get ride of: > > > > > > . . . > > And all the o

Re: Flex Roadmap

2012-01-08 Thread Matthew Poole
Hi, Newbie post, so a bug Hey! to everyone. Really would be good to see the Jira instance set up. Matt On 8 January 2012 09:43, Sebastian Mohr wrote: > Hi again, > > When would be the best time to speak about the Flex roadmap? > When we will start to define milestones and tickets for the next