Tour De Flex replaced the explorers (although some of the explorers did a bit more). The explorers were released by Adobe Consulting and were no longer updated past 2.0.1.
-Nick On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > Is Tour De Flex different from the explorers? I've never used any of them > since I already know the code. > > Is there a link to explorers on Adobe.com that you are interested in? > > -Alex > ________________________________________ > From: Deepak MS [megharajdee...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2014 11:42 PM > To: dev@flex.apache.org > Subject: Re: Next Donation from Adobe > > That's great! > Very keen to know if it includes component explorer and style explorer. > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > Adobe legal and business folks have approved the donation of several > > Flex-related items to Apache. The donation paperwork is on its way to > get > > VP signature (yes there could be some delay or reversal there, but I > don't > > expect any), but I'm bringing this up now because we should start > thinking > > about how to handle the contents of the donation. > > > > In the donation is: > > > > > > 1. Several Flex articles from the ADC web-site. > > 2. An updated version of the FDB debugger that contains support for > > ActionScript Workers > > 3. The FlexPMD source code > > 4. The Mobile Trader demo application > > 5. The specification for the MXML language > > 6. An XML merging utility source code from the Flex QA team. > > 7. The Squiggly spell-checker source code > > 8. The Tour De Flex application source code > > 9. The source code for a prototype of a code coverage utility that I > wrote. > > > > Links to the original Adobe content is at the end of this email. When > you > > go to the Adobe links you see a complete web article, but when donated, > > several things will be missing and several things will need adjusting > > before hosting the content at Apache. > > > > A) None of the videos in the VideoTraining article are being donated > > because the videos are heavily branded by Adobe "watermarks". Adobe says > > our version of the article can link to the Adobe videos, but Apache does > > not want us to host Adobe videos on Apache servers. At some point in > > time, I will try to get these videos posted on YouTube so we don't have > to > > worry about them being taken off of Adobe servers someday. Adobe Legal > > has ok'd posting the videos on YouTube, but I need to get some other > > approvals before doing it. We also need to get approval from Apache to > > link to the Adobe-hosted videos in the interim. We have approval to link > > to them when posted on YouTube. > > > > B) All of the devnet articles load Adobe CSS files. Our version of these > > articles should not look exactly like the Adobe colors so we need to > > create our own CSS file and adjust the articles to load those CSS files > > instead. I am not the right person to do this work, so a volunteer is > > needed. > > > > C) The Adobe icon and all head shots of authors are not being donated. > > The Apache version of these articles should not link to the head shots on > > the Adobe servers. > > > > D) The articles have sidebars and footers that point to lots of other > > Adobe content. Those sidebars and footers should be removed/replaced. > > > > E) Not all of the Tour De Flex content is being donated. Both TDF3 and > > TDF4 source code is in the donation, but articles written by non-Adobe > > authors are not in the donation. TDF will need to be adjusted to not > > reference the missing articles. The non-Adobe authors need to be > > contacted to donate their article to Apache. > > > > F) Other videos and images used in examples are missing from TDF and > > devnet articles if they were of real people or third-party brands. We > > will need to generate replacements, or adjust the articles to work > without > > the missing videos and images. We will have to be careful as the > articles > > may still point to the Adobe-hosted videos and images. > > > > G) Some articles point to zip files. In the donation, the zip files are > > expanded and the actual zip file is missing because we should be checking > > source and not zips into our repos. Build scripts will be needed to > > create zips that go with the production articles. > > > > And then we need to decide where to still all of this source. I guess > > flex-utilities for most of it. I would probably create a branch of > > flex-sdk for the FDB code. The XML Merge code will go in the BlazeDS > repo > > with the rest of BlazeDS. Where should be put all of the devnet html > > files until they are ready? > > > > Thanks, > > -Alex > > > > > > Here are links to the ADC articles: > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining.html > > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/testdrive.html > > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/testdrivemobile.html > > > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/mobile-development-flex-flashbuil > > der.html > > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex3and4_differences.html > > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/itemrenderers_pt1.html > > > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/employee-directory-android-flex.h > > tml > > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/mobile-skinning-part1.html > > > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex-mobile-performance-checklist > > .html > > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flashbuilder_blazeds.html > > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/spark_layouts.html > > > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex-mobile-development-tips-tric > > ks-pt4.html > > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex4_skinning.html > > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex4_viewport_scrolling.html > > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex4_effects_pt1.html > > > > FlexPMD is currently on Open@Adobe here: > > > > http://sourceforge.net/adobe/flexpmd/home/Home/ > > > > The Mobile Trader demo application is described here: > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/samples/mobile-trader-application.html > > > > And here: http://coenraets.org/blog/2011/03/flex-on-the-ipad/ > > > > The XML merge utility is a small set of files that should have been in > the > > BlazeDS donation > > > > Squiggly is described here: > > > > http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/squiggly/ > > > > Tour De Flex is described here: > > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/tourdeflex.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
