On 1/23/13 6:40 AM, "Carol Frampton" <cfram...@adobe.com> wrote:
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> On 1/22/13 5 :56PM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>>> Personally I think it is a much better use of Alex's time to continue
>>> to work on the the JS stuff
>> Which is why I asked if there was a way the community could help.
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> The answer is no. Unfortunately the community can't help. The majority
> of the work has to be done inside Adobe before the code can even be
> brought to Apache. In my couple of month estimate I did not include any
> test suites.
I'm not quite sure the answer is no. For sure, if we do the donation the
way we did the trunk, us Adobe folks have lots of work to do and the
non-Adobe folks can't help. But I'm hoping we can eventually donate 3.x
without having to do that because 3.x is a fork of what is already donated
to Apache. We would give up some amount of accuracy in the SVN history, but
that might be ok.
The community might be able to prepare a set of patches to a particular
branch from the trunk history (at least for the ActionScript portion of 3.x)
and then us Adobe folks would try to get that approved for donation. And,
they could take 3.x and run a branch of mustella against it and decide on a
strategy for how to use subset the tests and adjust test results.
I still believe a 3.x release is not worth the distraction to the project at
this time, but if folks really want to start working on it, I will take the
time to check with Adobe legal to make sure it is ok from Adobe's
perspective.
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Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
