Are you still willing to contribute to OpenLaszlo owned by Laszlo / CP / Critical Path?
Posted by Raju Bitter on 2012-05-25 05:58
In the past 24 months I've heard from more and more key people in the community (including former OpenLaszlo team members and committers) that they are not willing to contribute to the project in the current form any more. Honestly, I would prefer a project which is not connected to Laszlo in any way, but for practical reason I contributed the SWF11 runtime to the existing project.
So here's the question: Are you still willing to contribute to OpenLaszlo in the current form? I'd say that 70-80% of the expertise in the community will only be available if we have a fork of OpenLaszlo.
My vote: -1, no OpenLaszlo in the current form
I don't think it's of much use to contribute to a dead project. In the first 5 months of 2012 TWO reviews have been sent out to the laszlo-reviews mailing list, and one is the SWF11 runtime feature I've added. That means Critical Path' or Laszlo's contribution has been exactly one technical change of the platform in 6 months.
What are your thoughts?
Raju
So here's the question: Are you still willing to contribute to OpenLaszlo in the current form? I'd say that 70-80% of the expertise in the community will only be available if we have a fork of OpenLaszlo.
My vote: -1, no OpenLaszlo in the current form
I don't think it's of much use to contribute to a dead project. In the first 5 months of 2012 TWO reviews have been sent out to the laszlo-reviews mailing list, and one is the SWF11 runtime feature I've added. That means Critical Path' or Laszlo's contribution has been exactly one technical change of the platform in 6 months.
What are your thoughts?
Raju
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By quirino.zagarese@gmail.com on 2012-05-25 06:46
I've never been really contributing to the platform itself,
but in the past years I've done my best to present and spread OL in my country.
I'm definitely part of that 70-80% and I'm not interested in contributing to OL as it is.
As Raju knows, I work in research (service computing), so I would be interested to contribute to knew exciting features,
if they're relevant from the research perspective.
Any ideas?
Bests,
Quirino
By rjc@entelecheia.com on 2012-05-25 07:07
I am using openLaszlo for a private development project (i.e. its not my dayjob). Currently 100% of my resources are dedicated to that project, so I don'thave the bandwidth to make a real contribution to the development platform. Ithink that it would also be a significant learning curve to start making acontribution - I would not know where to start.
I can see that support for the langauge is dwindling, and I think that is areal shame - because it seems to me to offer capabilities that are not foundelsewhere. Openlaszlo is an ellegant language with many useful features.
If my current project is commercially succesfull, then I believe I wouldwant to support the further development of openlaszlo - I would hate tohave to port all of my code to another language. But it is not likely that willhappen quickly.
I am also guessing that some of the techincal things that I want to do (forexample multi-touch inputs) might be possible using work-arounds of the currentlanguage and components. So, of course, I am happy that there is some form ofcommunity around openlaszlo to share ideas with.
Rob
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In the past 24 months I've heard from more and more key peoplein
the community (including former OpenLaszlo team membersand
committers) that they are not willing to contribute to theproject
in the current form any more. Honestly, I would prefera project
which is not connected to Laszlo in any way, but forpractical
reason I contributed the SWF11 runtime to theexisting project.
So here's the question: Are you stillwilling to contribute to
OpenLaszlo in the current form? I'dsay that 70-80% of the expertise
in the community will only beavailable if we have a fork of
OpenLaszlo.
My vote: -1, no OpenLaszlo in the current form
I don't think it's ofmuch use to contribute to a dead project. In
the first 5 monthsof 2012 TWO reviews have been sent out to the
laszlo-reviewsmailing list, and one is the SWF11 runtime feature
I've added.That means Critical Path' or Laszlo's contribution has
beenexactly one technical change of the platform in 6 months.
What are your thoughts?
Raju
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By Kevin Meixner, B.Cs on 2012-05-25 12:13
By Raju Bitter on 2012-07-02 09:47
@Rob: Are you looking for multitouch support for the Flash runtime, or for DHTML?
@Kevin: That's great, let's see how we can add some of the components to OpenLaszlo. With the current state of the project, we might just want to create our own component repository, which should always be compatible with the latest OpenLaszlo release. So we don't depend on QA resources or responsiveness by Laszlo or CP - which I think we don't need for a component set.